Hosea 7:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They 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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  • Amos 2:8 : 8 They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!
  • Jer 3:10 : 10 In spite of all this, Israel’s sister, unfaithful Judah, has not turned back to me with any sincerity; she has only pretended to do so,” says the LORD.
  • Judg 9:27 : 27 They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, squeezed out the juice, and celebrated. They came to the temple of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.
  • Job 35:9-9 : 9 “People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty. 10 But no one says,‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,
  • Mic 2:11 : 11 If a lying windbag should come and say,‘I’ll promise you blessings of wine and beer,’ he would be just the right preacher for these people!
  • Zech 7:5 : 5 “Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows:‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me– for me, indeed?
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.
  • Jas 4:3 : 3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.
  • Exod 32:6 : 6 So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.
  • Ps 78:34-37 : 34 When he struck them down, they sought his favor; they turned back and longed for God. 35 They remembered that God was their protector, and that God Most High was their deliverer. 36 But they deceived him with their words, and lied to him. 37 They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 The Lord says,“These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.
  • Isa 52:5 : 5 And now, what do we have here?” says the LORD.“Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing, those who rule over them taunt,” says the LORD,“and my name is constantly slandered all day long.
  • Isa 65:14 : 14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; you will wail because your spirits will be crushed.
  • Hos 3:1 : 1 An 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.”
  • Hos 13:16 : 16 (14:1) Samaria will be held guilty, because she rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their infants will be dashed to the ground– their pregnant women will be ripped open.
  • Amos 8:3 : 3 The women singing in the temple will wail in that day.” The Sovereign LORD is speaking.“There will be many corpses littered everywhere! Be quiet!”

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  • 13Israel Has Turned Away from the Lord Woe to them! For they have fled from me! Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me! I want to deliver them, but they have lied to me.

  • 15Although I trained and strengthened them, they plot evil against me!

  • Jer 11:10-11
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    10They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

    11So I, the LORD, say this:‘I will soon bring disaster on them which they will not be able to escape! When they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.

  • Hos 7:6-7
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    6They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire.

    7All of them are blazing like an oven; they devour their rulers. All of their kings fall– and none of them call on me!

  • 13“‘It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,’ the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had said.

  • 4Someday these sinful leaders will cry to the LORD for help, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, because they have done such wicked deeds.”

  • 7My people are obsessed with turning away from me; they call to Baal, but he will never exalt them!

  • 1Egypt Will Prove Unreliable“The rebellious children are as good as dead,” says the LORD,“those who make plans without consulting me, who form alliances without consulting my Spirit, and thereby compound their sin.

  • 2They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

  • 8They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!

  • 11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • 7The LORD asked,“How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.

  • Amos 6:6-7
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    6They drink wine from sacrificial bowls, and pour the very best oils on themselves. Yet they are not concerned over the ruin of Joseph.

    7Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end.

  • 21“A noise is heard on the hilltops. It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods. Indeed they have followed sinful ways; they have forgotten to be true to the LORD their God.

  • 5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.

  • 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.

  • 14“They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd.

  • 14But as for you, Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not raise a cry of prayer for them. For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them.”

  • 2Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.

  • Isa 5:11-12
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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.

  • 39When their appetites are all stirred up, I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up,” says the LORD.

  • 17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • 17They will surround Jerusalem like men guarding a field because they have rebelled against me,” says the LORD.

  • 2Those who revolt are knee-deep in slaughter, but I will discipline them all.

  • 6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • 7Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got– disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got– cries for help!

  • 12Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.”

  • 8But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart. So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do.’”

  • 28Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.

  • 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.

  • 21They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.

  • 6The Futility of Sacrificial Ritual without Moral Obedience Although they bring their flocks and herds to seek the favor of the LORD, They will not find him– he has withdrawn himself from them!

  • 4All those who behave wickedly do not understand– those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the LORD.

  • 24But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They followed the stubborn inclinations of their own wicked hearts. They acted worse and worse instead of better.

  • Hos 4:7-8
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    7The more the priests increased in numbers, the more they rebelled against me. They have turned their glorious calling into a shameful disgrace!

    8They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!

  • 12ל(Lamed) Children say to their mothers,“Where are food and drink?” They faint like a wounded warrior in the city squares. They die slowly in their mothers’ arms.

  • 33They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. I tried over and over again to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction.

  • 11“But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

  • 8Indeed, the cries of distress echo throughout Moabite territory; their wailing can be heard in Eglaim and Beer Elim.

  • 7The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

  • 12Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!

  • 10Joy and happiness disappear from the orchards, and in the vineyards no one rejoices or shouts; no one treads out juice in the wine vats– I have brought the joyful shouts to an end.

  • 6When they were fed, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; as a result, they forgot me!

  • 10When I please, I will discipline them; I will gather nations together to attack them, to bind them in chains for their two sins.

  • 4They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.