O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.
Hosea 2:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 She did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil and who lavished upon her silver and gold that they used for Baal. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For she has not noticed, understood, or realized that it was I [the Lord God] Who gave her the grain and the new wine and the fresh oil, and Who lavished upon her silver and gold which they used for Baal and made into his image. American Standard Version (1901) For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal. Common English Bible She didn’t know that I gave her the corn, the new wine, and the fresh oil, and that I gave her much silver, and gold that they used for Baal. Catholic Public Domain Version And she did not know that I gave her grain and wine and oil, and that I increased her silver and gold, which they made into Baal. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And she did not know that I gave her corn and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal. |
O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.
He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know; my people do not understand.
Those who lavish gold from the purse and weigh out silver in the scales— they hire a goldsmith, who makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!
The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
you sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue whose height was sixty cubits and whose width was six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
You have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven! The vessels of his temple have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose power is your very breath and to whom belong all your ways, you have not honored.
Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars.
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
And now they keep on sinning and make a cast image for themselves, idols of silver made according to their understanding, all of them the work of artisans. “Sacrifice to these,” they say. People are kissing calves!
For their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will go after my lovers; they give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”
They made kings but not through me; they set up princes but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his seine, for by them his portion is lavish, and his food is rich.
A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant region, and there he squandered his wealth in dissolute living.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.
But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.
They went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards, trod them, and celebrated. Then they went into the temple of their god, ate and drank, and ridiculed Abimelech.