KJV King James Version
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as [other] people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
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Hosea 9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as [other] people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
WEB World English Bible
Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
ASV American Standard Version
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, departing from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Rejoice not, O Israel, be not joyful like the peoples, For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God, Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn.
Surrounding context — Hosea 9
1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as [other] people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in the LORD’S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean [things] in Assyria.
4 They shall not offer wine [offerings] to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices [shall be] unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
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אַל־H408 · alnotתִּשְׂמַ֨חH8055 · sa.machto rejoiceיִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל׀H3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)גִּיל֙H1524 · gilrejoicingכָּֽעַמִּ֔יםH5971 · ampeopleכִּ֥יH3588 · kiforזָנִ֖יתָH2181 · za.nahto fornicateמֵעַ֣לH5921 · aluponאֱלֹהֶ֑יךָH430 · e.lo.himGodאָהַ֣בְתָּH157 · a.havto love: loverאֶתְנָ֔ןH868 · et.nanwagesעַ֖לH5921 · aluponכָּל־H3605 · kolallגָּרְנ֥וֹתH1637 · go.renthreshing floorדָּגָֽן׃H1715 · da.gangrain
Cross-references
Hosea 10:5The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof [that] rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.James 4:16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.Isaiah 17:11In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.Jeremiah 44:17But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for [then] had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.Hosea 4:12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.Ezekiel 16:47-48Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.Amos 3:2You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.Ezekiel 20:32And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.Hosea 5:7They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.Amos 6:13Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?Isaiah 22:12-13And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:James 5:1Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].Amos 6:6-7That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.Lamentations 4:21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.Hosea 5:4They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms [is] in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.Ezekiel 21:10It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, [as] every tree.Hosea 2:12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These [are] my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.Amos 8:10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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