Hosea 7:14

Good News Translation

They have not prayed to me sincerely, but instead they throw themselves down and wail as the heathen do. When they pray for grain and wine, they gash themselves like pagans. What rebels they are!

Cross References

Exodus 32:6

Early the next morning they brought some animals to burn as sacrifices and others to eat as fellowship offerings. The people sat down to a feast, which turned into an orgy of drinking and sex.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said, “These people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorized.

Isaiah 52:5

And now in Babylonia the same thing has happened: you are captives, and nothing was paid for you. Those who rule over you boast and brag and constantly show contempt for me.

Isaiah 65:14

They will sing for joy, but you will cry with a broken heart.

Jeremiah 12:2

You plant them, and they take root; they grow and bear fruit. They always speak well of you, yet they do not really care about you.

Jeremiah 3:10

And after all this, Judah, Israel's unfaithful sister, only pretended to return to me; she was not sincere. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Lamentations 2:18

O Jerusalem, let your very walls cry out to the Lord! Let your tears flow like rivers night and day; Wear yourself out with weeping and grief!

Hosea 13:16

Samaria must be punished for rebelling against me. Her people will die in war; babies will be dashed to the ground, and pregnant women will be ripped open.”

Hosea 13:6

But when you entered the good land, you became full and satisfied, and then you grew proud and forgot me.

Hosea 13:9

“I will destroy you, people of Israel! Then who can help you?

Hosea 3:1

The Lord said to me, “Go again and show your love for a woman who is committing adultery with a lover. You must love her just as I still love the people of Israel, even though they turn to other gods and like to take offerings of raisins to idols.”

Hosea 8:2

Even though they call me their God and claim that they are my people and that they know me,

Amos 2:8

At every place of worship people sleep on clothing that they have taken from the poor as security for debts. In the temple of their God they drink wine which they have taken from those who owe them money.

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.”

Micah 2:11

“These people want the kind of prophet who goes around full of lies and deceit and says, ‘I prophesy that wine and liquor will flow for you.’

Zechariah 7:5

He said, “Tell the people of the land and the priests that when they fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during these seventy years, it was not in honor of me.

Romans 16:18

For those who do such things are not serving Christ our Lord, but their own appetites. By their fine words and flattering speech they deceive innocent people.

Philippians 3:19

They are going to end up in hell, because their god is their bodily desires. They are proud of what they should be ashamed of, and they think only of things that belong to this world.

James 4:3

And when you ask, you do not receive it, because your motives are bad; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures.

James 5:1

And now, you rich people, listen to me! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you!

Judges 9:27

They all went out into their vineyards and picked the grapes, made wine from them, and held a festival. They went into the temple of their god, where they ate and drank and made fun of Abimelech.