The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
HOS 9:1 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
cornfloor.
HOS 9:2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new
wine shall fail in her.
HOS 9:3 They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall
return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
HOS 9:4 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
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