Hosea 9:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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 mad.” Your terrible guilt has filled you with hatred.

Cross References

2 Kings 9:11

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

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?

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.

Isaiah 34:8

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

Isaiah 44:25

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

Jeremiah 10:15

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

Jeremiah 11:23

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

Jeremiah 16:18

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

Jeremiah 23:13

The prophets in Samaria were disgusting 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.

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 mad and pretends to be a prophet should be arrested and put in chains and iron collars.

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 6:14

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

Jeremiah 8:11

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

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.

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.

Ezekiel 13:3

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

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.”

Ezekiel 38:23

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

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 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.

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 9:8

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

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.

Micah 2:11

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

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.

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.

Mark 3:21

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

Luke 21:22

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

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.

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 that was filled with his anger.