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.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
2The threshing floor and winepress 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 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 4:21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, 1 That dwellest in the land: 1 Yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to thee: 1 Thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth. 1
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 →