Hosea 9:1
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Judgment of Israel’s Sin
9 Do(A) not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples,
For you have played the harlot against your God.
You have made love for (B)hire on every threshing floor.
Hosea 10:5
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5 The inhabitants of Samaria fear
Because of the (A)calf[a] of Beth Aven.
For its people mourn for it,
And [b]its priests shriek for it—
Because its (B)glory has departed from it.
Footnotes
- Hosea 10:5 Lit. calves, images
- Hosea 10:5 idolatrous priests
Hosea 4:12
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12 My people ask counsel from their (A)wooden idols,
And their [a]staff informs them.
For (B)the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray,
And they have played the harlot against their God.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:12 Diviner’s rod
Jeremiah 44:17
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17 But we will certainly do (A)whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the (B)queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of [a]food, were well-off, and saw no trouble.
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- Jeremiah 44:17 Lit. bread
James 5:1
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Rich Oppressors Will Be Judged
5 Come now, you (A)rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you!
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James 4:16
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16 But now you boast in your arrogance. (A)All such boasting is evil.
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Amos 6:13
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13 You who rejoice over [a]Lo Debar,
Who say, “Have we not taken [b]Karnaim for ourselves
By our own strength?”
Amos 6:6-7
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6 Who (A)drink wine from bowls,
And anoint yourselves with the best ointments,
(B)But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore they shall now go (C)captive as the first of the captives,
And those who recline at banquets shall be removed.
Amos 3:2
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2 “You(A) only have I known of all the families of the earth;
(B)Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
Hosea 5:7
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7 They have (A)dealt treacherously with the Lord,
For they have begotten [a]pagan children.
Now a New Moon shall devour them and their heritage.
Footnotes
- Hosea 5:7 Lit. strange
Hosea 5:4
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4 “They[a] do not direct their deeds
Toward turning to their God,
For (A)the spirit of harlotry is in their midst,
And they do not know the Lord.
Footnotes
- Hosea 5:4 Or Their deeds will not allow them to turn
Hosea 2:12
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12 “And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
Of which she has said,
‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’
So I will make them a forest,
And the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Ezekiel 21:10
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10 Sharpened to make a dreadful slaughter,
Polished to flash like lightning!
Should we then make mirth?
It despises the scepter of My son,
As it does all wood.
Ezekiel 20:32
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32 (A)What you have in your mind shall never be, when you say, ‘We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in other countries, serving wood and stone.’
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Ezekiel 16:47-48
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47 You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, (A)you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
48 “As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither (B)your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.
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Lamentations 4:21
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21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of (A)Edom,
You who dwell in the land of Uz!
(B)The cup shall also pass over to you
And you shall become drunk and make yourself naked.
Isaiah 22:12-13
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12 And in that day the Lord God of hosts
(A)Called for weeping and for mourning,
(B)For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
13 But instead, joy and gladness,
Slaying oxen and killing sheep,
Eating meat and (C)drinking wine:
(D)“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
Isaiah 17:11
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11 In the day you will make your plant to grow,
And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;
But the harvest will be a heap of ruins
In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.
Amos 8:10
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10 I will turn your feasts into (A)mourning,
(B)And all your songs into lamentation;
(C)I will bring sackcloth on every waist,
And baldness on every head;
I will make it like mourning for an only son,
And its end like a bitter day.
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