Hosea 9:5

What will you do on the day of an appointed festival, 1 on the day of a festival for Yahweh? 1

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What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

In Context

4They will pour out no wine offerings to Yahweh, 1 neither will they be pleasing to him. 1 Their sacrifices will be to them like mourners' food: 1 all who eat it will be defiled. 1 For their food will be for themselves only; 1 it will not come into the house of Yahweh. 1

6For, look, if they escape from destruction, 1 Egypt will gather them, 1 and Memphis will bury them. 1 As for their treasures of silver— 1 sharp briers will possess them, 1 and thorns will fill their tents. 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy with deceit, and the priests rule with their own power. 1 My people love it this way, but what will happen in the end?'”

Joel 1:13Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! 1 Wail, you servants of the altar. 1 Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you servants of my God. 1 For the grain offering and the drink offering have been withheld from the house of your God. 1

Matthew Henry on Hosea 9:2-7

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 740.) 1 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 corn-floor. 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not dwell in the Lord 's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord , neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto… Read the whole commentary →

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