Hosea 9:1

Good News Translation

People of Israel, stop celebrating your festivals like pagans. You have turned away from your God and have been unfaithful to him. All over the land you have sold yourselves like prostitutes to the god Baal and have loved the grain you thought he paid you with!

Cross References

Psalm 73:27

Those who abandon you will certainly perish; you will destroy those who are unfaithful to you.

Isaiah 17:11

But even if they sprouted and blossomed the very morning you planted them, there would still be no harvest. There would be only trouble and incurable pain.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own evil will punish you, and your turning from me will condemn you. You will learn how bitter and wrong it is to abandon me, the Lord your God, and no longer to remain faithful to me. I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 2:20

The Sovereign Lord says, “Israel, long ago you rejected my authority; you refused to obey me and worship me. On every high hill and under every green tree you worshiped fertility gods.

Jeremiah 44:17

We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as we and our ancestors, our king and our leaders, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.

Lamentations 4:21

Laugh on, people of Edom and Uz; be glad while you can. Your disaster is coming too; you too will stagger naked in shame.

Ezekiel 16:15

“But you took advantage of your beauty and fame to sleep with everyone who came along.

Ezekiel 16:30

This is what the Sovereign Lord is saying: “You have done all this like a shameless prostitute.

Ezekiel 20:32

You have made up your minds that you want to be like the other nations, like the people who live in other countries and worship trees and rocks. But that will never be.

Ezekiel 21:10

It is sharpened to kill, polished to flash like lightning. There can be no rejoicing, for my people have disregarded every warning and punishment.

Hosea 10:5

The people who live in the city of Samaria will be afraid and will mourn the loss of the gold bull at Bethaven. They and the priests who serve the idol will weep over it. They will wail when it is stripped of its golden splendor.

Hosea 2:12

I will destroy her grapevines and her fig trees, which she said her lovers gave her for serving them. I will turn her vineyards and orchards into a wilderness; wild animals will destroy them.

Hosea 4:12

They ask for revelations from a piece of wood! A stick tells them what they want to know! They have left me. Like a woman who becomes a prostitute, they have given themselves to other gods.

Hosea 5:4

The evil that the people have done keeps them from returning to their God. Idolatry has a powerful hold on them, and they do not acknowledge the Lord.

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.

Amos 3:2

“Of all the nations on earth, you are the only one I have known and cared for. That is what makes your sins so terrible, and that is why I must punish you for them.”

Amos 4:5

Go on and offer your bread in thanksgiving to God, and brag about the extra offerings you bring! This is the kind of thing you love to do.

Amos 6:13

You brag about capturing the town of Lodebar. You boast, “We were strong enough to take Karnaim.”

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into funerals and change your glad songs into cries of grief. I will make you shave your heads and wear sackcloth, and you will be like parents mourning for their only child. That day will be bitter to the end.

James 4:16

But now you are proud, and you boast; all such boasting is wrong.

James 5:1

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