They rose early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being, and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to revel.
Hosea 7:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; they gash themselves for grain and wine; they rebel against me. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They do not cry to Me from their heart, but they wail upon their beds; they gash and distress and assemble themselves [in mourning] for grain and new wine; they rebel against Me. American Standard Version (1901) And they have not cried unto me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and new wine; they rebel against me. Common English Bible They don’t cry to me from the heart, but they sob upon their beds; they fight over grain and wine; they resist me. Catholic Public Domain Version And they have not cried out to me in their heart, but they howled on their beds. They have obsessed about wheat and wine; they have withdrawn from me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me. |
They rose early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being, and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to revel.
The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,
Now therefore what am I doing here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Their rulers howl, says the Lord, and continually, all day long, my name is despised.
my servants shall sing with gladness of heart, but you shall cry out in pain of heart and shall wail in anguish of spirit.
You plant them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; you are near in their mouths yet far from their hearts.
Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart but only in pretense, says the Lord.
Cry aloud to the Lord! O wall of daughter Zion! Let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!
Samaria shall bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
When I fed them, they were satisfied; they were satisfied, and their heart was proud; therefore they forgot me.
The Lord said to me again, “Go, love a woman who has a lover and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”
they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink wine bought with fines they imposed.
The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day,” says the Lord God; “the dead bodies shall be many, cast out in every place. Be silent!”
If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” such a one would be the preacher for this people!
“Say to all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and in the seventh for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?
For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.
You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.
Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you.
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.