Hosea 10:8

New American Bible - revised edition

The high places of Aven will be destroyed, the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will cry out to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall upon us!”

Cross References

Genesis 3:8

When they heard the sound of the Lord God walking about in the garden at the breezy time of the day, the man and his wife hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

1 Kings 13:2

He cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord: “Altar, altar, thus says the Lord: A child shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, who shall slaughter upon you the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and they shall burn human bones upon you.”

1 Kings 13:34

This is the account of the sin of the house of Jeroboam for which it was to be cut off and destroyed from the face of the earth.

1 Kings 14:16

He will give up Israel because of the sins Jeroboam has committed and caused Israel to commit.”

2 Kings 23:15

Likewise the altar which was at Bethel, the high place built by Jeroboam, son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin—this same altar and high place he tore down and burned, grinding the high place to powder and burning the asherah.

2 Chronicles 31:1

After all this was over, those Israelites who had been present went forth to the cities of Judah and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the asherahs, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, until they were all destroyed. Then the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.

Isaiah 2:19

People will go into caves in the rocks and into holes in the earth, At the terror of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, as he rises to overawe the earth.

Isaiah 2:21

And they shall go into caverns in the rocks and into crevices in the cliffs, At the terror of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, as he rises to overawe the earth.

Isaiah 32:13

For the soil of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers; For all the joyful houses, the exultant city.

Isaiah 34:13

Its castles shall be overgrown with thorns, its fortresses with thistles and briers. It shall become an abode for jackals, a haunt for ostriches.

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is false! Now they will pay for their guilt: God will break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.

Hosea 10:5

The inhabitants of Samaria are afraid for the calf of Beth-aven; Its people mourn for it and its idolatrous priests wail over it, —over its glory which has departed from it.

Hosea 10:9

Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, Israel. There they took their stand; will war not reach them in Gibeah? Against a perverse people

Hosea 2:6

I will have no pity on her children, for they are children of prostitution.

Hosea 4:13

On the mountaintops they offer sacrifice and on the hills they burn incense, Beneath oak and poplar and terebinth, because of their pleasant shade. Therefore your daughters prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

Hosea 4:15

Though you prostitute yourself, Israel, do not let Judah become guilty! Do not come to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, do not swear, “As the Lord lives!”

Hosea 5:8

Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah! Sound the alarm in Beth-aven: “Look behind you, Benjamin!”

Hosea 8:5

He has rejected your calf, Samaria! My wrath is kindled against them; How long will they be incapable of innocence in Israel?

Hosea 9:6

When they flee from the devastation, Egypt will gather them, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will overgrow their silver treasures, and thorns, their tents.

Amos 1:5

I will break the barred gate of Damascus; From the Valley of Aven I will cut off the one enthroned, And the sceptered ruler from Beth-eden; the people of Aram shall be exiled to Kir, says the Lord.

Amos 3:14

On the day when I punish Israel for its crimes, I will also punish the altars of Bethel; The horns of the altar shall be broken off and fall to the ground.

Amos 7:9

The high places of Isaac shall be laid waste, and the sanctuaries of Israel made desolate; and I will attack the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by Ashima of Samaria, and who say, “By the life of your god, O Dan,” “By the life of the Power of Beer-sheba!” They shall fall, never to rise again.

Micah 1:13

Harness steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; You are the beginning of sin for daughter Zion, For in you were found the crimes of Israel.

Micah 1:5

All this is for the crime of Jacob, for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the crime of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the sin of the house of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

Nahum 3:11

You, too, will drink of this; you will be overcome; You, too, will seek a refuge from the foe.

Luke 23:30

At that time people will say to the mountains, ‘Fall upon us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’

Deuteronomy 9:21

Then, taking the calf, the sinful object you had made, I burnt it and ground it down to powder as fine as dust, which I threw into the wadi that went down the mountainside.

Revelation 6:16

They cried out to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Revelation 9:6

During that time these people will seek death but will not find it, and they will long to die but death will escape them.