Hosea 9:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Do not rejoice, Israel, do not exult like the nations! For you have prostituted yourself, abandoning your God, loving a prostitute’s fee upon every threshing floor.

Cross References

Psalm 73:27

But those who are far from you perish; you destroy those unfaithful to you.

Isaiah 17:11

Though you make them grow the day you plant them and make them blossom the morning you set them out, The harvest shall disappear on a day of sickness and incurable pain.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness chastises you, your own infidelities punish you. Know then, and see, how evil and bitter is your forsaking the Lord, your God, And your showing no fear of me, oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts.

Jeremiah 2:20

Long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds. You said, “I will not serve.” On every high hill, under every green tree, you sprawled and served as a prostitute.

Jeremiah 44:17

Rather we will go on doing what we proposed; we will offer incense to the Queen of Heaven and pour out libations to her, just as we have done, along with our ancestors, our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty to eat, we prospered, and we suffered no misfortune.

Lamentations 4:21

Rejoice and gloat, daughter Edom, dwelling in the land of Uz, The cup will pass to you as well; you shall become drunk and strip yourself naked!

Ezekiel 16:15

But you trusted in your own beauty and used your renown to serve as a prostitute. You poured out your prostitution on every passerby—let it be his.

Ezekiel 16:30

How wild your lust!—oracle of the Lord God—that you did all these works of a shameless prostitute,

Ezekiel 20:32

What has entered your mind shall never happen: You are thinking, “We shall be like the nations, like the peoples of foreign lands, serving wood and stone.”

Ezekiel 21:10

and all flesh shall know that I, the Lord, have drawn my sword from its scabbard. It cannot return again. Act Symbolic of the City’s Fall.

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 2:12

Now I will lay bare her shame in full view of her lovers, and no one can deliver her out of my hand.

Hosea 4:12

My people consult their piece of wood, and their wand makes pronouncements for them, For the spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they prostitute themselves, forsaking their God.

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is in them, and they do not know the Lord.

Hosea 5:7

They have betrayed the Lord, for they have borne illegitimate children; Now the new moon will devour them together with their fields.

Amos 3:2

You alone I have known, among all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Amos 4:5

Burn leavened bread as a thanksgiving sacrifice, proclaim publicly your voluntary offerings, For so you love to do, Israelites— oracle of the Lord God.

Amos 6:13

You who rejoice in Lodebar, and say, “Have we not, by our own strength, seized Karnaim for ourselves?”

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into dirges. I will cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make it like the time of mourning for an only child, and its outcome like a day of bitter weeping.

James 4:16

But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.