Isaiah 57:9

New Century Version

You use your oils and perfumes to look nice for Molech. You have sent your messengers to faraway lands; you even tried to send them to the place of the dead.

Cross References

Proverbs 7:17

I have made my bed smell sweet with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Isaiah 2:9

People will not be proud any longer but will bow low with shame. God, do not forgive them.

Ezekiel 16:33

Men pay prostitutes, but you pay all your lovers to come to you. And they come from all around for sexual relations.

Ezekiel 23:16

When she saw them, she wanted to have sexual relations with them and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.

Ezekiel 23:40

“They even sent for men from far away, who came after a messenger was sent to them. The two sisters bathed themselves for them, painted their eyes, and put on jewelry.

Daniel 11:36

“The king of the North will do whatever he wants. He will brag about himself and praise himself and think he is even better than a god. He will say things against the God of gods that no one has ever heard. And he will be successful until all the bad things have happened. Then what God has planned to happen will happen.

Hosea 12:1

What Israel does is as useless as chasing the wind; he chases the east wind all day. They tell more and more lies and do more and more violence. They make agreements with Assyria, and they send a gift of olive oil to Egypt.

Hosea 7:11

Israel has become like a pigeon— easy to fool and stupid. First they call to Egypt for help. Then they run to Assyria.

Colossians 2:18

Do not let anyone disqualify you by making you humiliate yourself and worship angels. Such people enter into visions, which fill them with foolish pride because of their human way of thinking.