Hosea 9:1
New Living Translation
Hosea Announces Israel’s Punishment
9 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.
Hosea 10:5
New Living Translation
5 The people of Samaria tremble in fear
for their calf idol at Beth-aven,[a]
and they mourn for it.
Though its priests rejoice over it,
its glory will be stripped away.[b]
Hosea 4:12
New Living Translation
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.
Jeremiah 44:17
New Living Translation
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!
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James 5:1
New Living Translation
Warning to the Rich
5 Look here, you rich people: Weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.
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James 4:16
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16 Otherwise you are boasting about your own pretentious plans, and all such boasting is evil.
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Amos 6:13
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13 And you brag about your conquest of Lo-debar.[a]
You boast, “Didn’t we take Karnaim[b] by our own strength?”
Amos 6:6-7
New Living Translation
6 You drink wine by the bowlful
and perfume yourselves with fragrant lotions.
You care nothing about the ruin of your nation.[a]
7 Therefore, you will be the first to be led away as captives.
Suddenly, all your parties will end.
Footnotes
- 6:6 Hebrew of Joseph.
Amos 3:2
New Living Translation
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.”
Hosea 5:7
New Living Translation
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.[a]
Footnotes
- 5:7 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
Hosea 5:4
New Living Translation
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 2:12
New Living Translation
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.
Ezekiel 21:10
New Living Translation
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![a]
Footnotes
- 21:10 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
Ezekiel 20:32
New Living Translation
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.
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Ezekiel 16:47-48
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47 But you have not merely sinned as they did. You quickly surpassed them in corruption. 48 As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, Sodom and her daughters were never as wicked as you and your daughters.
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Lamentations 4:21
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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.
Isaiah 22:12-13
New Living Translation
12 At that time the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
called you to weep and mourn.
He told you to shave your heads in sorrow for your sins
and to wear clothes of burlap to show your remorse.
13 But instead, you dance and play;
you slaughter cattle and kill sheep.
You feast on meat and drink wine.
You say, “Let’s feast and drink,
for tomorrow we die!”
Isaiah 17:11
New Living Translation
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.
Amos 8:10
New Living Translation
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!
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