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Hosea 2:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I'll stop Israel's celebrations— no more New Moon Festivals, Sabbaths, or other feasts.

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He also decided to start a new festival for the Israelites on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, just like the one in Judah. On that day, Jeroboam went to Bethel and offered sacrifices on the altar to the gold calf he had put there. Then he assigned the priests their duties.

Warn the people of Judah that I, the LORD All-Powerful, will put an end to all their parties and wedding celebrations.

I will put an end to your parties and wedding celebrations; no one will grind grain or be here to light the lamps at night.

When I have finished with your land, there will be deathly silence in the empty ruins of Jerusalem and the towns of Judah—no happy voices, no sounds of parties or wedding celebrations.

You will have no reason to sing or play music on harps,

It will also be a long time before Israel has a king or before sacrifices are offered at the temple or before there is any way to get guidance from God.

You have been unfaithful to me, your LORD; you have had children by prostitutes. So at the New Moon Festival, you and your crops will be destroyed.

All your hard work will be for nothing—and there will be no harvest of grain or fruit.

I, the LORD, hate and despise your religious celebrations and your times of worship.

Instead of singing in the temple, they will cry and weep. Dead bodies will be everywhere. So keep silent! I, the LORD, have spoken!”

You say to yourselves, “How much longer before the end of the New Moon Festival? When will the Sabbath be over? Our wheat is ready, and we want to sell it now. We can't wait to cheat and charge high prices for the grain we sell. We will use dishonest scales

They are like drunkards overcome by wine, or like dry thorn bushes burning in a fire.




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