Hosea 9:1

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Do not rejoice, Israel, like other nations, for you have been unfaithful to your God. You have loved the wages of a prostitute on every threshing floor of grain.

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  • Hos 10:5 : 5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf idol of Beth-aven. Its people will mourn over it, and so will its idolatrous priests, who rejoiced over its glory, because it will be taken from them.
  • Jer 44:17 : 17 Instead, we will do everything we promised: we will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, just as we, our ancestors, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. At that time, we had plenty of food, prospered, and experienced no disaster.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their staffs provide guidance for them. A spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they have been unfaithful under their God.
  • Hos 5:4 : 4 Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.
  • Hos 5:7 : 7 They have been unfaithful to the Lord; they have had illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them along with their fields.
  • Isa 17:11 : 11 Though on the day you plant them you make them grow, and in the morning you make your seed blossom, yet the harvest will be a heap on the day of grief and incurable pain.
  • Isa 22:12-13 : 12 In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth. 13 But behold, there is joy and gladness—killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine—saying, 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!'
  • Lam 4:21 : 21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz! But to you also the cup will pass; you will become drunk and strip yourself naked.
  • Ezek 16:47-48 : 47 You not only followed their ways and acted according to their detestable practices but in a very short time, you became more depraved than they were in all your ways. 48 As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters did not do as you and your daughters have done.
  • Ezek 20:32 : 32 What you have in mind will never happen. You say, 'We will be like the nations, like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone.'
  • Ezek 21:10 : 10 All humanity will know that I, the LORD, have drawn My sword from its sheath, and it will not return again.
  • Hos 2:12 : 12 Now I will uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers; no one will deliver her out of my hand.
  • Amos 3:2 : 2 You only have I known among all the families of the earth; therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.
  • Amos 6:6-7 : 6 You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph. 7 Therefore, you will be among the first to go into exile, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
  • Amos 6:13 : 13 You who rejoice in nothingness and say, 'By our own strength we have taken horns for ourselves!'
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 'I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cover everyone's waists with sackcloth and shave every head bald. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.'
  • Jas 4:16 : 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.

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  • 2The threshing floor and the winepress will not provide for them, and the new wine will fail them.

  • 3For you have shattered the yoke that burdened them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, as on the day of Midian’s defeat.

  • 15Though you, Israel, play the harlot, let not Judah become guilty. Do not go to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth Aven, and do not swear, 'As surely as the LORD lives!'

  • 1Samaria will be found guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.

  • 15What right does my beloved have in my house, when she has done so many wicked schemes? Can consecrated meat remove your evil? Then you would exult!

  • Jer 2:19-20
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    19Your own wickedness will discipline you; your backslidings will rebuke you. Consider and see how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of me,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

    20For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, but you said, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

  • Jer 3:20-21
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    20But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,' declares the LORD.

    21A voice is heard on the barren heights: the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God.

  • Hos 5:3-5
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    3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the harlot; Israel is defiled.

    4Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.

    5The pride of Israel testifies against him; Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their guilt, and Judah also will stumble with them.

  • Jer 3:2-3
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    2Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been violated? By the roads you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

    3Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen face of a prostitute; you refuse to show any shame.

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    28You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were never satisfied. Even after prostituting yourself with them, you were not satisfied.

    29You also multiplied your promiscuity in the land of Canaan and even with the Chaldeans, yet even with this, you were not satisfied.

  • 10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There Ephraim acts like a prostitute; Israel is defiled.

  • 31When you built your mounds at the head of every road and made your high places in every street, you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

  • 7How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

  • 30These things will be done to you because you prostituted yourself to the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

  • Hos 4:10-11
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    10They will eat but not be satisfied; they will commit fornication but not multiply, because they have abandoned the LORD to pursue their own ways.

    11Fornication, wine, and new wine take away the heart and understanding.

  • 25At the head of every street, you built your high places. You degraded your beauty by spreading your legs to every passerby and multiplied your acts of prostitution.

  • 1Then the Lord said to me, "Go again and love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes."

  • 10Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your ancestors. But they went to Baal Peor, consecrated themselves to shame, and became as detestable as the thing they loved.

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    15But you trusted in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame. You lavished your acts of prostitution on every passerby, willing to be his.

    16You took your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them, you committed prostitution. Such things should not have happened, nor should they occur.

    17You also took the fine jewelry made of gold and silver that I had given you, and you made male idols for yourself and engaged in prostitution with them.

  • 8Therefore, I will block her way with thorns and build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.

  • Jer 3:8-9
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    8I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and prostituted herself.

    9Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

  • 6During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has prostituted herself there."

  • 25Keep your feet from going bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It’s hopeless! I love foreigners, and I will follow them.’

  • 5Otherwise, I will strip her naked, expose her as on the day of her birth. I will make her like a wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.

  • 10Joy and gladness are taken away from the fertile fields. In the vineyards, no songs are sung, no cheers are heard. No one treads out wine in the presses—the cheerful shouting has stopped.

  • 35Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD.

  • 8Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations like something worthless.

  • 1Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more abundant his fruit, the more altars he built. The richer his land, the more he adorned sacred pillars.

  • Joel 1:10-11
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    10The fields are devastated, and the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the olive oil fails.

    11Be ashamed, you farmers; wail, you vinekeepers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

  • 13You who rejoice in nothingness and say, 'By our own strength we have taken horns for ourselves!'

  • 13But you have planted wickedness, reaped injustice, and eaten the fruit of deception. Because you trusted in your own way and in your many warriors,

  • 1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the women of Moab.

  • 6For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of influences from the east, practice divination like the Philistines, and join hands with foreigners.

  • 6For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you clapped your hands, stomped your feet, and rejoiced with all the scorn in your heart against the land of Israel,

  • 2She has fallen, never to rise again—the virgin Israel; she is deserted on her land, with no one to lift her up.

  • 18Their drink has turned them aside; they persist in their immorality. They love shame more than their honor.

  • 10This is what the LORD says about this people: They love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their guilt and punish their sins.

  • 15You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not use their oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

  • 27Was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you speak of him you wag your head in scorn?