Holy Scripture

Hosea 9:4

A church father on this verse
“Let not the people flatter themselves as if they could be safe from contagion of sin, communicating with a sinful priest and yielding their obedience to the unjust and unlawful episcopacy of their leader, when the divine censure threatens through the prophet Hosea and says, "Their sacrifices shall be like the bread of…”
Cyprian, 3th c. — Epistle LXVII:3

Source: Septuagint

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4They have not offered wine to the Lord, neither have their sacrifices been sweet to him, but as the bread of mourning to them; all that eat them shall be defiled; for their bread for their soul shall not enter into the house of the Lord.

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2The threshing floor and winepress knew them not, and the wine disappointed them.

3They dwelt not in the Lord’s land: Ephraim dwelt in Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.

— Hosea 9:4 —

5What will ye do in the day of the general assembly, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

6Therefore, behold, they go forth from the trouble of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them, and Machmas shall bury them: as for their silver, destruction shall inherit it; thorns shall be in their tents.

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