Hosea 9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, as other nations: for thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God; thou hast loved gifts upon every threshing-floor.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
2The threshing-floor and wine-press knew them not, and the wine disappointed them.
Cross References
Isaiah 22:12And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and + 22:12 Gr. shaving.baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:
Jeremiah 2:20For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and plucked asunder thy bands; and thou hast said, I will not serve thee, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.
Lamentations 4:21Chsen. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Idumea, that dwellest in the land: yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth.
Ezekiel 16:30Why should I make a covenant with thy daughter, saith the Lord, while thou doest all these things, the works of a harlot? and thou hast gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with thy daughters.
Ezekiel 20:32And it shall not be as ye say, We will be as the nations, and as the tribes of the earth, to worship stocks and stones.
Hosea 2:12And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of my hand.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 9:1
In this chapter, I. God threatens to deprive this degenerate seed of Israel of all their worldly enjoyments, because by sin they had forfeited their title to them; so that they should have no comfort either in receiving them themselves or in offering them to God, ver. 1-5 . II. He dooms them to utter ruin, for their own sins and the sins of their prophets, ver. 6-8 . III. He upbraids them with the wickedness of their fathers before them, whose steps they trod in, ver. 9, 10 . IV. He threatens them with the… Read the whole commentary →