Hosea 9:1

New International Reader's Version

Israel, don’t be joyful. Don’t be glad as the other nations are. You haven’t been faithful to your God. You love to get paid for being a prostitute. Your pay is the grain at every threshing floor.

Cross References

Psalm 73:27

Those who don’t want anything to do with you will die. You destroy all those who aren’t faithful to you.

Isaiah 17:11

The plants might start to grow on the day you set them out. The vines might begin to bud on the morning you plant them. But even if they do, there won’t be any harvest. Instead, there will be sickness and pain that won’t go away.

Jeremiah 2:19

You will be punished because you have sinned. You will be corrected for turning away from me. I am the Lord your God. If you desert me, bad things will happen to you. If you do not respect me, you will suffer bitterly. I want you to understand that,” announces the Lord who rules over all.

Jeremiah 2:20

“Long ago you broke off the yoke I put on you. You tore off the ropes I tied you up with. You said, ‘I won’t serve you!’ In fact, on every high hill you lay down like a prostitute. You worshiped other gods under every green tree.

Jeremiah 44:17

We will certainly do everything we said we would. We’ll burn incense to the female god called the Queen of Heaven. We’ll pour out drink offerings to her. We’ll do just as we and our people of long ago have done. Our kings and our officials also did it. All of us did it in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food. We were well off. We didn’t suffer any harm.

Lamentations 4:21

People of Edom, be joyful. You who live in the land of Uz, be glad. But the cup of the Lord’s anger will also be passed to you. Then you will become drunk. Your clothes will be stripped off.

Ezekiel 16:15

“ ‘ “But you trusted in your beauty. You used your fame to become a prostitute. You offered your body freely to anyone who passed by. In fact, you gave yourself to anyone who wanted you.

Ezekiel 16:30

“ ‘ “I am filled with great anger against you,” announces the Lord and King. “Just look at all the things you are doing! You are acting like a prostitute who has no shame at all.

Ezekiel 20:32

“ ‘ “You say, ‘We want to be like the other nations. We want to be like all the other people in the world. They serve gods made out of wood and stone.’ But what you have in mind will never happen.

Ezekiel 21:10

It is sharpened to kill people. It flashes like lightning.” ’ ” The people say, “Should we take delight in the scepter of the Lord’s royal son? The sword looks down on every scepter like this.”

Hosea 10:5

The people who live in Samaria are filled with fear. They are afraid for their god that looks like a calf. They’re afraid it will be carried off from Beth Aven, that evil town. They will mourn over it. So will the priests who led them to worship it. The priests were full of joy because their statue was so glorious. But it will be captured and taken far away from them.

Hosea 2:12

I will destroy her vines and her fig trees. She said they were her pay from her lovers. I’ll make them like clumps of bushes and weeds. Wild animals will eat them up.

Hosea 4:12

My people ask a wooden statue of a god for advice. They get answers from a stick of wood. They are as unfaithful as prostitutes. They are not faithful to their God.

Hosea 5:4

“They can’t return to me because they have done so many evil things. In their hearts they long to act like prostitutes. They do not recognize me as the Lord.

Hosea 5:7

They are not faithful to the Lord. Their children are not his. When they celebrate their New Moon feasts, he will destroy their fields.

Amos 3:2

“Out of all the families on earth I have chosen only you. So I will punish you because you have committed so many sins.”

Amos 4:5

Bake some bread with yeast. Burn it as a thank offering. Brag about the offerings you freely give. This is what you Israelites love to do,” announces the Lord and King.

Amos 6:13

You are happy because you captured the town of Lo Debar. You say, “We were strong enough to take Karnaim too.”

Amos 8:10

I will turn your holy feasts into times for mourning. I will turn all your songs into weeping. You will have to wear the clothing of sadness. You will shave your heads. I will make you mourn as if your only son had died. The end of that time will be like a bitter day.”

James 4:16

As it is, you brag. You brag about the evil plans your pride produces. This kind of bragging is evil.

James 5:1

You rich people, listen to me. Cry and weep, because you will soon be suffering.