Hosea 9:1
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Punishment for Israel’s Sin
9 Do not rejoice, O Israel!
Do not exult[a] as other nations do,
for you have prostituted yourself, departing from your God.
You have loved a prostitute’s pay
on all threshing floors.(A)
Footnotes
- 9.1 Gk: Heb To exultation
Hosea 10:5
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5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
for the calf[a] of Beth-aven.
Its people shall mourn for it,
and its idolatrous priests shall wail[b] over it,
over its glory that has departed from it.(A)
Hosea 4:12
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12 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.(A)
Jeremiah 44:17
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17 Instead, we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her, just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. We used to have plenty of food and prospered and saw no misfortune.(A)
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James 5:1
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Warning to Rich Oppressors
5 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you.
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James 4:16
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16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
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Amos 6:13
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13 you who rejoice in Lo-debar,[a]
who say, “Have we not by our own strength
taken Karnaim[b] for ourselves?”
Amos 6:6-7
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6 who drink wine from bowls
and anoint themselves with the finest oils
but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!(A)
7 Therefore they shall now be the first to go into exile,
and the revelry of the loungers shall pass away.(B)
Amos 3:2
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2 You only have I known
of all the families of the earth;
therefore I will punish you
for all your iniquities.(A)
Hosea 5:7
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7 They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord,
for they have borne illegitimate children.
Now the new moon shall devour them along with their fields.(A)
Hosea 5:4
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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.(A)
Hosea 2:12
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12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
of which she said,
“These are my pay,
which my lovers have given me.”
I will make them a forest,
and the wild animals shall devour them.(A)
Ezekiel 21:10
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10 it is sharpened for slaughter,
honed to flash like lightning!
How can we make merry?
You have despised the rod
and all discipline.[a]
Footnotes
- 21.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Ezekiel 20:32
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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.”
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Ezekiel 16:47-48
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47 You not only followed their ways and acted according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.(A) 48 As I live, says the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.(B)
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Lamentations 4:21
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21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter Edom,
you that live in the land of Uz;
but to you also the cup shall pass;
you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.(A)
Isaiah 22:12-13
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12 On that day the Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for baldness and putting on sackcloth,(A)
13 but instead there was joy and festivity,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating meat and drinking wine.
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”(B)
Isaiah 17:11
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11 though you make them grow on the day that you plant them
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away
in a day of sickness and incurable pain.(A)
Amos 8:10
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10 I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on all loins
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.(A)
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