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.
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