Hosea 9:1
Do not rejoice, Israel, 1 with joy like the other peoples. 1 For you have been unfaithful, 1 forsaking your God. 1 You love to pay the wages a prostitute requires 1 on all the threshing floors. 1
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2But the threshing floor and the winepress will not feed them; 1 the new wine will fail them. 1
Cross References
Isaiah 22:12The Lord Yahweh of hosts called on that day 1 for weeping, for mourning, for shaved heads, and the wearing of sackcloth. 1
Jeremiah 2:20For I broke your yoke that you had in ancient days; I tore your fetters off you. Still you said, 1 'I will not serve!' since you bowed down on every high hill and beneath every leafy tree, you adulterer. 1
Lamentations 4:21Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, 1 you who live in the land of Uz. 1 But to you also the cup will be passed; 1 you will be drunk and strip yourself naked. 1
Ezekiel 16:30How sick is your heart—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—that you would do all these things, deeds of a shameless prostitute?
Ezekiel 20:32The thought that is forming in your mind will never happen. You say, “Let us be like the other nations, like the clans in the other lands who worship wood and stone.”
Hosea 2:12“I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, 1 of which she has said, 1 'These are the wages that my lovers gave me.' 1 I will make them a forest, 1 and the animals of the field will eat them. 1
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 →