Hosea 9:4

Contemporary English Version 1995

You won't be able to offer sacrifices of wine to the Lord. None of your sacrifices will please him— they will be unclean like food offered to the dead. Your food will only be used to satisfy your hunger; none of it will be brought to the Lord's temple.

Cross References

Hosea 8:13

You sacrifice your best animals and eat the sacrificial meals, but I, the Lord, refuse your offerings. I will remember your sins and punish you. Then you will return to Egypt.

Jeremiah 6:20

People of Judah, you bring me incense from Sheba and spices from distant lands. You offer sacrifices of all kinds. But why bother? I hate these gifts of yours!

Deuteronomy 26:14

I have not eaten any of this sacred food while I was in mourning; in fact, I never touched it when I was unclean. And none of it has been offered as a sacrifice to the spirits of the dead. I have done everything exactly as you commanded.

Joel 2:14

I am the Lord your God. Perhaps I will change my mind and treat you with mercy. Then you will be blessed with enough grain and wine for offering sacrifices to me.

Hosea 3:4

It will also be a long time before Israel has a king or before sacrifices are offered at the temple or before there is any way to get guidance from God.

Ezekiel 24:17

Mourn in silence and don't show that you are grieving. Don't remove your turban or take off your sandals; don't cover your face to show your sorrow, or eat the food that mourners eat.”

John 6:51

I am that bread from heaven! Everyone who eats it will live forever. My flesh is the life-giving bread I give to the people of this world.

Malachi 2:13

And what else are you doing? You cry noisily and flood the Lord's altar with your tears, because he isn't pleased with your offerings and refuses to accept them.

Amos 5:22

I won't accept your offerings or animal sacrifices— not even your very best.

Joel 1:13

Mourn, you priests who serve at the altar of my God. Spend your days and nights wearing sackcloth. Offerings of grain and wine are no longer brought to the Lord's temple.

Ezekiel 24:22

Then you will do the same things I have done. You will leave your face uncovered and refuse to eat the food that mourners usually eat.

Isaiah 66:3

You sacrifice oxen to me, and you commit murder; you sacrifice lambs to me and dogs to other gods; you offer grain to me and pigs' blood to idols; you burn incense to me and praise your idols. You have made your own choice to do these disgusting things that you enjoy so much.

Isaiah 57:6

You have chosen to worship idols made of stone; you have given them offerings of wine and grain. Should I be pleased?

Numbers 28:2

to say to the people of Israel: Offer sacrifices to me at the appointed times of worship, so that I will smell the smoke and be pleased.

Leviticus 21:21

These men may not serve as my priests and burn sacrifices to me.

Leviticus 21:17

to say to Aaron: No descendant of yours can ever serve as my priest if he is blind or lame, if his face is disfigured, if one leg is shorter than the other,

Leviticus 21:8

because I am holy. And so, you must be treated with proper respect, since you offer food sacrifices to me, the God of holiness.

Leviticus 21:6

I am the Lord your God, and I have chosen you alone to offer sacrifices of food to me on the altar. That's why you must keep yourselves holy.

Leviticus 17:11

Life is in the blood, and I have given you the blood of animals to sacrifice in place of your own.

Exodus 40:23

after which the bread was set on the table.

Numbers 19:11

If you touch a dead body, you will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 4:7

Next, Aaron and his sons will use another blue cloth to cover the table for the sacred bread. On the cloth they will place the dishes, the bowls for incense, the cups, the jugs for wine, as well as the bread itself.

Exodus 29:40

With each lamb offer one kilogram of your finest flour mixed with a liter of pure olive oil, and also pour out a liter of wine as an offering. The smell of this sacrifice on the fires of the altar will be pleasing to me.

Jeremiah 16:7

No one will bring food and wine to help comfort those who are mourning the death of their father or mother.

Daniel 1:8

Daniel made up his mind to eat and drink only what God had approved for his people to eat. And he asked the king's chief official for permission not to eat the food and wine served in the royal palace.

Joel 1:9

Offerings of grain and wine are no longer brought to the Lord's temple. His servants, the priests, are deep in sorrow.

Hosea 7:16

and refuse to obey. They are more useless than a crooked arrow. Their leaders will die in war for saying foolish things. Egyptians will laugh at them.