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# General Information:
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Hosea the prophet is speaking.
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# Yahweh's land
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This expression signals that Yahweh continues to view the land of Israel as his property, not the property of the Israelites.
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# unclean food
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This is food that the Israelites would normally refuse to eat because it would make them unacceptable to Yahweh. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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