Hosea 5:9 Cross References

Hosea 5:9

9: One thing is certain, Israel: When your day of punishment comes, you will become a heap of rubble.

Only I can tell you what is going to happen even before it happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.

But all the things I said through my servants the prophets happened to your ancestors, just as I said they would. As a result, they repented and said, `We have received what we deserved from the LORD Almighty. He has done what he said he would do.'"

The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will die at birth or perish in the womb or never even be conceived.
Even if your children do survive to grow up, I will take them from you. It will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone.
I have watched Israel become as beautiful and pleasant as Tyre. But now Israel will bring out her children to be slaughtered."
O LORD, what should I request for your people? I will ask for wombs that don't give birth and breasts that give no milk.
The LORD says, "All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions. I will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels.

Destruction is certain for the city of Samaria--the pride and joy of the drunkards of Israel! It sits in a rich valley, but its glorious beauty will suddenly disappear. Destruction is certain for that city--the pride of a people brought low by wine.
For the Lord will send the mighty Assyrian army against it. Like a mighty hailstorm and a torrential rain, they will burst upon it and dash it to the ground.
The proud city of Samaria--the pride and joy of the drunkards of Israel--will be trampled beneath its enemies' feet.
It sits in a fertile valley, but its glorious beauty will suddenly disappear. It will be greedily snatched up, as an early fig is hungrily picked and eaten.

Ephraim was the most fruitful of all his brothers, but the east wind--a blast from the LORD--will arise in the desert. It will blow hard against the people of Ephraim, drying up their land. All their flowing springs and wells will disappear. Every precious thing they have will be plundered and carried away.
The people of Samaria must bear the consequences of their guilt because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed by an invading army, their little ones dashed to death against the ground, their pregnant women ripped open by swords."

"On the very day I punish Israel for its sins, I will destroy the pagan altars at Bethel. The horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.
And I will destroy the beautiful homes of the wealthy--their winter mansions and their summer houses, too--all their palaces filled with ivory. I, the LORD, have spoken!"

"But since my people refuse to return to me, they will go back to Egypt and will be forced to serve Assyria.
War will swirl through their cities; their enemies will crash through their gates and destroy them, trapping them in their own evil plans.

The pagan shrines of your ancestors and the temples of Israel will be destroyed, and I will bring the dynasty of King Jeroboam to a sudden end."

But this is what the LORD says: Because you have refused to listen, your wife will become a prostitute in this city, and your sons and daughters will be killed. Your land will be divided up, and you yourself will die in a foreign land. And the people of Israel will certainly become captives in exile, far from their homeland."

What he destroys cannot be rebuilt. When he closes in on someone, there is no escape.

I will tear at Israel and Judah as a lion rips apart its prey. I will carry them off, and there will be no one left to rescue them.

They told him, "This is what King Hezekiah says: This is a day of trouble, insult, and disgrace. It is like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to deliver it.

Time and again I warned you about what was going to happen in the future. Then suddenly I took action, and all my predictions came true.

In the past when the tribe of Ephraim spoke, the people shook with fear because the other Israelite tribes looked up to them. But the people of Ephraim sinned by worshiping Baal and thus sealed their destruction.
Now they keep on sinning by making silver idols to worship--images shaped skillfully with human hands. "Sacrifice to these," they cry, "and kiss the calf idols!"
Therefore, they will disappear like the morning mist, like dew in the morning sun, like chaff blown by the wind, like smoke from a chimney.

That is why I told you ahead of time what I was going to do. That way, you could never say, `My idols did it. My wooden image and metal god commanded it to happen!'

I will destroy Israel as a moth consumes wool. I will sap Judah's strength as dry rot weakens wood.

Yes, I'm telling you these things now, so that when they happen, you will remember I warned you. I didn't tell you earlier because I was going to be with you for a while longer.

The people of Israel have been swallowed up; they lie among the nations like an old pot that no one wants.

"But always, first of all, I warn you through my servants the prophets. I, the Sovereign LORD, have now done this."

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