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HOSEA
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- Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people:
- For thou hast gone a whoring from thy God,
- Thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
- The floor and the winepress shall not feed them,
- And the new wine shall fail in her.
- They shall not dwell in the Lord's land;
- But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
- And they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
- They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord,
- Neither shall they be pleasing unto him:
- Their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners;
- All that eat thereof shall be polluted:
- For their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.
- What will ye do in the solemn day,
- And in the day of the feast of the Lord?
- For, lo, they are gone because of destruction:
- Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them:
- The pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them:
- Thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
- The days of visitation are come,
- The days of recompence are come;
- Israel shall know it:
- The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad,
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