Hosea 9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel, for gladness, as other people; for thou art gone astray, unfaithful to thy God: thou hast loved the wages of sin upon every corn-filled threshing-floor.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
2The threshing-floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall deceive them.
Cross References
Isaiah 22:12And the Lord Eternal of hosts called on that day for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
Jeremiah 2:20Because from yore did I break thy yoke, did I burst asunder thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress: nevertheless upon every high hill and under every green tree thou makest thy bed, as harlot.
Lamentations 4:21Be glad and rejoice, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of 'Uz: also unto thee shall the cup pass; thou wilt be drunken, and make thyself naked.
Ezekiel 16:30How very corrupt is thy heart, saith the Lord Eternal, seeing thou didst all these things, deeds of an abandoned lewd woman;
Ezekiel 20:32And that which cometh up into your mind shall not at all come to pass, [namely,] that ye say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the [other] countries, to serve wood and stone.
Hosea 2:12(2:14) And I will make desolate her vine and her fig-tree, whereof she hath said, These are my reward which my lovers have given me: and I will change them into a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
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 →