Hosea 4:11
Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.
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- Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.
- Isa 28:7 : 7 Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer– priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.
- Luke 21:34 : 34 Be Ready!“But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.
- Isa 5:12 : 12 They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the LORD is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.
- Prov 6:32 : 32 A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, whoever does it destroys his own life.
- Prov 23:27-35 : 27 for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well. 28 Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men. 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of the eyes? 30 Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine. 31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. 32 Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things. 34 And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging. 35 You will say,“They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink.”
- Eccl 7:7 : 7 Human Wisdom Overturned by Adversity Surely oppression can turn a wise person into a fool; likewise, a bribe corrupts the heart.
- Rom 13:11-14 : 11 Motivation to Godly Conduct And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers. 12 The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light. 13 Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy. 14 Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.
- Hos 4:12 : 12 They consult their wooden idols, and their diviner’s staff answers with an oracle. The wind of prostitution blows them astray; they commit spiritual adultery against their God.
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10They will eat, but not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution, but not increase in numbers; because they have abandoned the LORD by pursuing other gods.
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5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.
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12They consult their wooden idols, and their diviner’s staff answers with an oracle. The wind of prostitution blows them astray; they commit spiritual adultery against their God.
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18The Shameful Sinners Will Be Brought to Shame They consume their alcohol, then engage in cult prostitution; they dearly love their shameful behavior.
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7The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.
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1Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.
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11Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.
12They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the LORD is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.
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2Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.
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4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,
5lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.
6Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those who are bitterly distressed;
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4Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; for a spirit of idolatry is in them, and they do not acknowledge the LORD.
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30Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine.
31Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
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17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
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15“Woe to you who force your neighbor to drink wine– you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, so you can look at their naked bodies.
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11They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.
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7Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer– priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.
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2with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.”
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9They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.
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3For all the nations have fallen from the wine of her immoral passion, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.”
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39No one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says,‘The old is good enough.’”
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30“‘How sick is your heart, declares the Sovereign LORD, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.
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5Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man! His appetite is as big as Sheol’s; like death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations; he seizes all peoples.
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4Taunt against the Harlot City“Because you have acted like a wanton prostitute– a seductive mistress who practices sorcery, who enslaves nations by her harlotry, and entices peoples by her sorcery–
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14Then he said to her,“How much longer do you intend to get drunk? Put away your wine!”
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1An Illustration of God’s Love for Idolatrous Israel The LORD said to me,“Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. Likewise, the LORD loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”
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22Beware, those who are champions at drinking, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.
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20Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,
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26for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.
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9Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.
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22Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.
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35“‘Therefore O prostitute, Listen to the LORD’s message:
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17who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.
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5For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said,“I will seek out my lovers; they are the ones who give me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.
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17The Babylonians crawled into bed with her. They defiled her with their lust; after she was defiled by them, she became disgusted with them.
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20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
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14They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me.
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37And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
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21So listen to this, oppressed one, who is drunk, but not from wine!
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15The LORD says to the people of Judah,“What right do you have to be in my temple, my beloved people? Many of you have done wicked things. Can your acts of treachery be so easily canceled by sacred offerings that you take joy in doing evil even while you make them?
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9God’s People Are Spiritually Insensitive You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer.
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32“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
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17You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution with them.
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25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways;
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4“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” To those who lack understanding, she has said,
5“Come, eat some of my food, and drink some of the wine I have mixed.
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10The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.