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Hosea 8:14

New American Bible - revised edition

Israel has forgotten his maker and has built palaces. Judah, too, has fortified many cities, but I will send fire upon his cities, to devour their strongholds.

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He also built temples on the high places and made priests from among the common people who were not Levites. Divine Disapproval.

It was not enough for him to follow the sins of Jeroboam, son of Nebat. He even married Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal, and worship him.

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

He built towers in the wilderness and dug numerous cisterns, for he had many cattle. He had plowmen in the Shephelah and the plains, farmers and vinedressers in the highlands and the garden land. He was a lover of the soil.

Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the wooded areas he set up fortresses and towers.

They forgot the God who had saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt,

Enter, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the Lord who made us.

Truly, you have forgotten the God who saves you, the Rock, your refuge, you have not remembered. Therefore, though you plant plants for the Pleasant One, and set out cuttings for a foreign one,

For when his children see the work of my hands in his midst, They shall sanctify my name; they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, be in awe of the God of Israel.

The Lord goes forth like a warrior, like a man of war he stirs up his fury; He shouts out his battle cry, against his enemies he shows his might:

So he poured out wrath upon them, his anger, and the fury of battle; It blazed all around them, yet they did not realize, it burned them, but they did not take it to heart.

The people whom I formed for myself, that they might recount my praise.

So the Lord raises up their foes against them and stirs up their enemies to action—

“Bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with cut stone; Sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

But if you do not obey me and keep holy the sabbath day, if you carry burdens and come through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath, I will set fire to its gates—a fire never to be extinguished—and it will consume the palaces of Jerusalem.

Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her sash? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

By the dreams they tell each other, they plan to make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name for Baal.

A cry is heard on the heights! the plaintive weeping of Israel’s children, Because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the Lord, their God.

They will devour your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and your daughters, Devour your sheep and cattle, devour your vines and fig trees; With their swords they will beat down the fortified cities in which you trust.

Therefore thus says the Lord God: You have forgotten me and cast me behind your back; now suffer for your depravity and prostitution.

When I fed them, they were satisfied; when satisfied, they became proud, therefore they forgot me.

I will put an end to all her joy, her festivals, her new moons, her sabbaths— all her seasonal feasts.

My people are ruined for lack of knowledge! Since you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from serving as my priest; Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its strongholds.

I will send fire upon Teman, and it will devour the strongholds of Bozrah.

I will kindle a fire upon the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its strongholds Amid war cries on the day of battle, amid stormwind on the day of tempest.

I will send fire upon the house of Hazael, and it will devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.

I will send fire upon Judah, and it will devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.

For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them. One in Christ.

You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you, you forgot the God who gave you birth.




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