Hosea 2:11

Good News Translation

I will put an end to all her festivities—her annual and monthly festivals and her Sabbath celebrations—all her religious meetings.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:32

Jeroboam also instituted a religious festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival in Judah. On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the gold bull-calves he had made, and he placed there in Bethel the priests serving at the places of worship he had built.

Jeremiah 16:9

Listen to what I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, have to say. I will silence the sounds of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. The people here will live to see this happen.

Jeremiah 25:10

I will silence their shouts of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. They will have no oil for their lamps, and there will be no more grain.

Jeremiah 7:34

The land will become a desert. In the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the happy sounds of wedding feasts.

Ezekiel 26:13

I will put an end to all your songs, and I will silence the music of your harps.

Hosea 3:4

In just this way the people of Israel will have to live for a long time without kings or leaders, without sacrifices or sacred stone pillars, without idols or images to use for divination.

Hosea 5:7

They have been unfaithful to the Lord; their children do not belong to him. So now they and their lands will soon be destroyed.

Leviticus 26:20

All your hard work will do you no good, because your land will not produce crops and the trees will not bear fruit.

Amos 5:21

The Lord says, “I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them!

Amos 8:3

On that day the songs in the palace will become cries of mourning. There will be dead bodies everywhere. They will be cast out in silence.”

Amos 8:5

You say to yourselves, “We can hardly wait for the holy days to be over so that we can sell our grain. When will the Sabbath end, so that we can start selling again? Then we can overcharge, use false measures, and fix the scales to cheat our customers.

Nahum 1:10

Like tangled thorns and dry straw you drunkards will be burned up!