Hosea 9:1

New Living Translation

O people of Israel, do not rejoice as other nations do. For you have been unfaithful to your God, hiring yourselves out like prostitutes, worshiping other gods on every threshing floor.

Cross References

Psalm 73:27

Those who desert him will perish, for you destroy those who abandon you.

Isaiah 17:11

They may sprout on the day you set them out; yes, they may blossom on the very morning you plant them, but you will never pick any grapes from them. Your only harvest will be a load of grief and unrelieved pain.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will bring its own punishment. Your turning from me will shame you. You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is to abandon the Lord your God and not to fear him. I, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!

Jeremiah 2:20

“Long ago I broke the yoke that oppressed you and tore away the chains of your slavery, but still you said, ‘I will not serve you.’ On every hill and under every green tree, you have prostituted yourselves by bowing down to idols.

Jeremiah 44:17

We will do whatever we want. We will burn incense and pour out liquid offerings to the Queen of Heaven just as much as we like—just as we, and our ancestors, and our kings and officials have always done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For in those days we had plenty to eat, and we were well off and had no troubles!

Lamentations 4:21

Are you rejoicing in the land of Uz, O people of Edom? But you, too, must drink from the cup of the Lord’s anger. You, too, will be stripped naked in your drunkenness.

Ezekiel 16:15

“But you thought your fame and beauty were your own. So you gave yourself as a prostitute to every man who came along. Your beauty was theirs for the asking.

Ezekiel 16:30

“What a sick heart you have, says the Sovereign Lord, to do such things as these, acting like a shameless prostitute.

Ezekiel 20:32

“You say, ‘We want to be like the nations all around us, who serve idols of wood and stone.’ But what you have in mind will never happen.

Ezekiel 21:10

It is sharpened for terrible slaughter and polished to flash like lightning! Now will you laugh? Those far stronger than you have fallen beneath its power!

Hosea 10:5

The people of Samaria tremble in fear for their calf idol at Beth-aven, and they mourn for it. Though its priests rejoice over it, its glory will be stripped away.

Hosea 2:12

I will destroy her grapevines and fig trees, things she claims her lovers gave her. I will let them grow into tangled thickets, where only wild animals will eat the fruit.

Hosea 4:12

They ask a piece of wood for advice! They think a stick can tell them the future! Longing after idols has made them foolish. They have played the prostitute, serving other gods and deserting their God.

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.

Hosea 5:7

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.

Amos 3:2

“From among all the families on the earth, I have been intimate with you alone. That is why I must punish you for all your sins.”

Amos 4:5

Present your bread made with yeast as an offering of thanksgiving. Then give your extra voluntary offerings so you can brag about it everywhere! This is the kind of thing you Israelites love to do,” says the Sovereign Lord.

Amos 6:13

And you brag about your conquest of Lo-debar. You boast, “Didn’t we take Karnaim by our own strength?”

Amos 8:10

I will turn your celebrations into times of mourning and your singing into weeping. You will wear funeral clothes and shave your heads to show your sorrow— as if your only son had died. How very bitter that day will be!

James 4:16

Otherwise you are boasting about your own pretentious plans, and all such boasting is evil.

James 5:1

Look here, you rich people: Weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.