Hos 9:1-5 | ESV | STEP | Rejoice not, O Israel ! Exult not like the peoples ; for you have played the whore , forsaking your God . You have loved a prostitute’s wages on all threshing floors .

Hosea 9:1-5

The Lord Will Punish Israel

1 Rejoice not, O Israel!
Exult not like the peoples;
^afor you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
^bYou have loved a prostitute’s wages
on all threshing floors.
2 ^cThreshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
and ^dthe new wine shall fail them.
3 They shall not remain in ^ethe land of the Lord,
but ^fEphraim shall return to Egypt,
and ^gthey shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
4 ^hThey shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
ⁱand their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like ^jmourners’ bread to them;
all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
^kit shall not come to the house of the Lord.
5 ^lWhat will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
and on the day of the feast of the Lord?