that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
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TSK · Hosea 9:3
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"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.
It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
"Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.
As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
"They won't return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.
Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.