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 · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Have 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) · 1752

Rejoice 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 · 1890

Rejoice 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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