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Hosea 2:11

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I will put an end to her annual festivals, her new moon celebrations, and her Sabbath days— all her appointed festivals.

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And Jeroboam instituted a religious festival in Bethel, held on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in imitation of the annual Festival of Shelters in Judah. There at Bethel he himself offered sacrifices to the calves he had made, and he appointed priests for the pagan shrines he had made.

For this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: In your own lifetime, before your very eyes, I will put an end to the happy singing and laughter in this land. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard.

I will take away your happy singing and laughter. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard. Your millstones will fall silent, and the lights in your homes will go out.

I will put an end to the happy singing and laughter in the streets of Jerusalem. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard in the towns of Judah. The land will lie in complete desolation.

I will stop the music of your songs. No more will the sound of harps be heard among your people.

This shows that Israel will go a long time without a king or prince, and without sacrifices, sacred pillars, priests, or even idols!

They have betrayed the honor of the Lord, bearing children that are not his. Now their false religion will devour them along with their wealth.

All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.

“I hate all your show and pretense— the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.

In that day the singing in the temple will turn to wailing. Dead bodies will be scattered everywhere. They will be carried out of the city in silence. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

You can’t wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. You measure out grain with dishonest measures and cheat the buyer with dishonest scales.

His enemies, tangled like thornbushes and staggering like drunks, will be burned up like dry stubble in a field.




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