Verse 1

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.

Referenced Verses

  • Hos 10:5 : 5 The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.
  • Jer 44:17 : 17 But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.
  • Hos 5:4 : 4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.
  • Hos 5:7 : 7 They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.
  • Isa 17:11 : 11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.
  • Isa 22:12-13 : 12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief: 13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
  • Lam 4:21 : 21 Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.
  • Ezek 16:47-48 : 47 Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways. 48 By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daughters have done.
  • Ezek 20:32 : 32 And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;
  • Ezek 21:10 : 10 It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ...
  • Hos 2:12 : 12 And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.
  • Amos 3:2 : 2 You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.
  • Amos 6:6-7 : 6 Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph. 7 So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were stretched out will come to an end.
  • Amos 6:13 : 13 You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
  • Jas 4:16 : 16 But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.