Hosea 4:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

My people consult a piece of wood, and their divining rod gives them oracles. For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have prostituted themselves, forsaking their God.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:7

This occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

2 Chronicles 21:13

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, as the house of Ahab led Israel into unfaithfulness, and because you also have killed your brothers, members of your father’s house, who were better than you,

Psalm 106:39

Thus they became unclean by their acts and prostituted themselves in their doings.

Psalm 73:27

Indeed, those who are far from you will perish; you put an end to those who are false to you.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!

Jeremiah 2:27

who say to a tree, “You are my father,” and to a stone, “You gave me birth.” For they have turned their backs to me and not their faces. But in the time of their trouble they say, “Come and save us!”

Jeremiah 23:13

In the prophets of Samaria I saw a disgusting thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.

Ezekiel 20:32

What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, “Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.”

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the fork in the two roads, to use divination; he shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he inspects the liver.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.”

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.

Hosea 6:10

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s prostitution is there; Israel is defiled.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, O Israel! Do not exult as other nations do, for you have prostituted yourself, departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute’s pay on all threshing floors.

Leviticus 17:7

so that they may no longer offer their sacrifices for goat-demons, to whom they prostitute themselves. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.

Leviticus 20:5

I myself will set my face against them and against their family and will cut them off from among their people, them and all who follow them in prostituting themselves to Molech.

Micah 2:11

If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” such a one would be the preacher for this people!

Habakkuk 2:19

Alas for you who say to the wood, “Wake up!” to silent stone, “Rouse yourself!” Can it teach? See, it is gold and silver plated, and there is no breath in it at all.

Numbers 15:39

You have the fringe so that, when you see it, you will remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them and not follow the lust of your own heart and your own eyes.

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “Soon you will lie down with your ancestors. Then this people will begin to prostitute themselves to the foreign gods in their midst, the gods of the land into which they are going; they will forsake me, breaking my covenant that I have made with them.

Judges 18:5

Then they said to him, “Inquire of God that we may know whether the mission we are undertaking will succeed.”