Hosea 9:1
What does Hosea 9:1 mean?
A plain-English look at Hosea 9:1 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Rejoice 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Rejoice 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Rejoice 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`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.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for thou hast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Rejoice not, Israel, exultingly, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thyGod, thou hast loved harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.
Context
v.1This passage
v.2The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- James 5:1
Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
- Amos 3:2
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.
- Ezekiel 21:10
it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree.
- Hosea 2:12
And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
- Amos 6:13
ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
- Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, departing from under their God.
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