Hosea 9:7

Contemporary English Version 1995

Israel, the time has come. You will get what you deserve, and you will know it. “Prophets are fools,” you say. “And God's messengers are crazy.” Your terrible guilt has filled you with hatred.

Cross References

Micah 7:4

The most honest of them is worse than a thorn patch. Your doom has come! Lookouts sound the warning, and everyone panics.

2 Kings 9:11

Jehu went back to his officers, and one of them asked, “What did that crazy prophet want? Is everything all right?” “You know him and how he talks,” Jehu answered.

Mark 3:21

When Jesus' family heard what he was doing, they thought he was crazy and went to get him under control.

Ezekiel 13:3

I, the Lord God, say those lying prophets are doomed! They don't see visions—they make up their own messages!

Lamentations 2:14

Your prophets deceived you with false visions and lying messages— they should have warned you to leave your sins and be saved from disaster.

Jeremiah 10:15

Idols are merely a joke, and when the time is right, they will be destroyed.

Isaiah 10:3

But what will you do when you are fiercely attacked and punished by foreigners? Where will you run for help? Where will you hide your valuables?

2 Corinthians 5:13

If we seem out of our minds, it is between God and us. But if we are in our right minds, it is for your good.

Luke 21:22

This time of punishment is what is written about in the Scriptures.

Micah 2:11

The only prophet you want is a liar who will say, “Drink and get drunk!”

Ezekiel 13:10

Those prophets refuse to be honest. They tell my people there will be peace, even though there's no peace to be found. They are like workers who think they can fix a shaky wall by covering it with paint.

Jeremiah 29:26

After the death of Jehoiada the priest, the Lord chose you to be the priest in charge of the temple security force. You know that anyone who acts crazy and pretends to be a prophet should be arrested and put in chains and iron collars.

Revelation 16:19

The great city of Babylon split into three parts, and the cities of other nations fell. So God made Babylon drink from the wine cup filled with his anger.

Zephaniah 3:4

Jerusalem's prophets are proud and not to be trusted. The priests have disgraced the place of worship and abused God's Law.

Amos 8:2

and asked, “Amos, what do you see?” “A basket of ripe fruit,” I replied. Then he said, “This is the end for my people Israel. I won't forgive them again.

Hosea 9:8

Israel, the Lord sent me to look after you. But you trap his prophets and flood his temple with your hatred.

Ezekiel 38:23

I will do these things to show the world that I, the Lord, am holy.

Ezekiel 25:17

In my fierce anger, I will take revenge on them. And when I punish them, they will know that I am the Lord.”

Jeremiah 46:21

The foreign soldiers you hired will turn and run. But they are doomed, like well-fed calves being led to the butcher. *

Jeremiah 16:18

I will punish you double for your sins, because you have polluted my own land. You have filled it with lifeless idols that remind me of dead bodies.

Jeremiah 11:23

And when I am finished, no one from their families will be left alive.

Jeremiah 8:11

All they ever offer to my deeply wounded people are empty hopes for peace.

Jeremiah 6:14

All they ever offer to my deeply wounded people are empty hopes for peace.

Isaiah 44:25

I make liars of false prophets and fools of fortunetellers. I take human wisdom and turn it into nonsense.

Isaiah 34:8

The Lord has chosen the year and the day, when he will take revenge and come to Zion's defense.

Isaiah 26:11

Your hand is raised and ready to punish them, but they don't see it. Put them to shame! Show how much you care for us and throw them into the fire intended for your enemies.

Jeremiah 23:13

The prophets in Samaria were repulsive to me, because they preached in the name of Baal and led my people astray.

Jeremiah 25:14

I will pay back the Babylonians for every wrong they have done. Great kings from many other nations will conquer the Babylonians and force them to be slaves.

Ezekiel 9:10

And so I will not have pity on them or forgive them. They will be punished for what they have done.”

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.

Hosea 14:1

Israel, return! Come back to the Lord, your God. Sin has made you fall.

Hosea 5:9

I, the Lord, will punish and wipe out Israel. This is my solemn promise to every tribe of Israel.