Hosea 8:11

New Living Translation

“Israel has built many altars to take away sin, but these very altars became places for sinning!

Cross References

Jeremiah 16:13

So I will throw you out of this land and send you into a foreign land where you and your ancestors have never been. There you can worship idols day and night—and I will grant you no favors!’

Jeremiah 17:1

“The sin of Judah is inscribed with an iron chisel— engraved with a diamond point on their stony hearts and on the corners of their altars.

Hosea 10:8

And the pagan shrines of Aven, the place of Israel’s sin, will crumble. Thorns and thistles will grow up around their altars. They will beg the mountains, “Bury us!” and plead with the hills, “Fall on us!”

Hosea 12:11

But the people of Gilead are worthless because of their idol worship. And in Gilgal, too, they sacrifice bulls; their altars are lined up like the heaps of stone along the edges of a plowed field.

Hosea 5:4

Your deeds won’t let you return to your God. You are a prostitute through and through, and you do not know the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:28

There, in a foreign land, you will worship idols made from wood and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.