Hosea 9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel, Exult not, like the nations! For thou committest fornication, forsaking thy God! Thou lovest hire on every corn-floor.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2The floor and the vat shall not feed them, And the new wine shall deceive them.
Cross References
Isaiah 22:12The Lord, Jehovah of hosts, calleth you this day To weeping and to lamentation, To baldness and to girding with sackcloth.
Jeremiah 2:20Of old hast thou broken thy yoke, And burst thy bands, And said, “I will not be in subjection!” For upon every high hill, And under every green tree, Hast thou reclined, playing the harlot.
Lamentations 4:21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz! Yet to thee also shall the cup come! thou shalt be drunken, and shalt expose thy nakedness.
Ezekiel 16:30How faint was thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, that thou didst all those things which an imperious whorish wife doeth,
Ezekiel 20:32And that which cometh into your mind shall not come to pass, when ye say, “We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, worshipping wood and stone.”
Hosea 2:12I will destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, Of which she said, These are my hire, Which my lovers have given me; And I will make them a forest, And the wild beasts shall eat 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 →