“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 bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.”
The statement that they shall not pour out wine offerings to the LORD and their sacrifices shall not please him suggests that the exile will sever Israel's ability to perform the cultic practices central to covenant maintenance. The comparison to bread of mourners, all who eat of which are defiled, indicates that the loss of proper worship leads to a kind of spiritual defilement. This verse emphasizes that exile means not merely loss of land but loss of the conditions for covenant practice.
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