Hosea 9:7

Good News Translation

The time for punishment has come, the time when people will get what they deserve. When that happens, Israel will know it! “This prophet,” you say, “is a fool. This inspired man is insane.” You people hate me so much because your sin is so great.

Cross References

2 Kings 9:11

Jehu went back to his fellow officers, who asked him, “Is everything all right? What did that crazy fellow want with you?” “You know what he wanted,” Jehu answered.

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do when God punishes you? What will you do when he brings disaster on you from a distant country? Where will you run to find help? Where will you hide your wealth?

Isaiah 26:11

Your enemies do not know that you will punish them. Lord, put them to shame and let them suffer; let them suffer the punishment you have prepared. Show them how much you love your people.

Isaiah 34:8

This is the time when the Lord will rescue Zion and take vengeance on her enemies.

Isaiah 44:25

I make fools of fortunetellers and frustrate the predictions of astrologers. The words of the wise I refute and show that their wisdom is foolishness.

Jeremiah 10:15

They are worthless and should be despised; they will be destroyed when the Lord comes to deal with them.

Jeremiah 11:23

I have set a time for bringing disaster on the people of Anathoth, and when that time comes, none of them will survive.”

Jeremiah 16:18

I will make them pay double for their sin and wickedness, because they have defiled my land with idols that are as lifeless as corpses, and have filled it with their false gods.”

Jeremiah 23:13

I have seen the sin of Samaria's prophets: they have spoken in the name of Baal and have led my people astray.

Jeremiah 25:14

I will pay the Babylonians back for what they have done, and many nations and great kings will make slaves of them.’”

Jeremiah 29:26

“The Lord made you a priest in place of Jehoiada, and you are now the chief officer in the Temple. It is your duty to see that every crazy person who pretends to be a prophet is placed in chains with an iron collar around the neck.

Jeremiah 46:21

Even her hired soldiers are helpless as calves. They did not stand and fight; all of them turned and ran. The day of their doom had arrived, the time of their destruction.

Jeremiah 6:14

They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. ‘All is well,’ they say, when all is not well.

Jeremiah 8:11

They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. ‘All is well,’ they say, when all is not well.

Lamentations 2:14

Your prophets had nothing to tell you but lies; Their preaching deceived you by never exposing your sin. They made you think you did not need to repent.

Ezekiel 13:10

“The prophets mislead my people by saying that all is well. All is certainly not well! My people have put up a wall of loose stones, and then the prophets have come and covered it with whitewash.

Ezekiel 13:3

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “These foolish prophets are doomed! They provide their own inspiration and invent their own visions.

Ezekiel 25:17

I will punish them severely and take full revenge on them. They will feel my anger. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 38:23

In this way I will show all the nations that I am great and that I am holy. They will know then that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 9:10

But I will not have pity on them; I will do to them what they have done to others.”

Hosea 14:1

Return to the Lord your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall.

Hosea 5:9

The day of punishment is coming, and Israel will be ruined. People of Israel, this will surely happen!

Hosea 8:13

They offer sacrifices to me and eat the meat of the sacrifices. But I, the Lord, am not pleased with them, and now I will remember their sin and punish them for it; I will send them back to Egypt!

Hosea 9:8

God has sent me as a prophet to warn his people Israel. Yet wherever I go, you try to trap me like a bird. Even in God's Temple the people are the prophet's enemies.

Amos 8:2

The Lord asked, “Amos, what do you see?” “A basket of fruit,” I answered. The Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel. I will not change my mind again about punishing them.

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.’

Micah 7:4

Even the best and most honest of them are as worthless as weeds. The day has come when God will punish the people, as he warned them through their watchmen, the prophets. Now they are in confusion.

Zephaniah 3:4

The prophets are irresponsible and treacherous; the priests defile what is sacred, and twist the law of God to their own advantage.

Mark 3:21

When his family heard about it, they set out to take charge of him, because people were saying, “He's gone mad!”

Luke 21:22

For those will be ‘The Days of Punishment,’ to make come true all that the Scriptures say.

2 Corinthians 5:13

Are we really insane? It is for God's sake. Or are we sane? Then it is for your sake.

Revelation 16:19

The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of all countries were destroyed. God remembered great Babylon and made her drink the wine from his cup—the wine of his furious anger.