Hosea 9:1
Israel, don't rejoice! Don't celebrate like other nations! For you have practiced prostitution; you have loved a prostitute's wages on every threshing floor of grain.
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Isaiah 22:12At that time the Lord, the Lord Almighty, was calling you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth.
Jeremiah 2:20You broke off your yoke and ripped off your chains long ago. “I won't worship you!” you declared. On the contrary, you lay down like a prostitute on every high hill and under every green tree.
Lamentations 4:21Celebrate and be happy while you can, people of Edom, you who live in the land of Uz, because this cup will be passed to you too. You will get drunk and strip yourself naked.
Ezekiel 16:30You're really sick-minded to do all this, acting like a prostitute with no shame, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 20:32When you say to yourselves, ‘Let's be like the other nations, like people in other countries who worship idols made of wood and stone,’ what you're thinking is never going to happen.
Hosea 2:12I will destroy her vines and fig trees that she said were given to her as payment for being a prostitute. I will turn them into scrub-land; only wild animals will eat the remaining fruit.
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 →