Hosea 2:9 Cross References - ISV

⁹ “Therefore I’ll return and take back my grain at harvest time and my new wine in its season. I’ll take back my wool and my flax that was to have covered her nakedness.

¹⁸ “At that time, the LORD will take away the finery of the ankle bracelets, headbands, crescents, ¹⁹ pendants, bracelets, veils, ²⁰ headdresses, armlets, sashes, perfume boxes, charms, ²¹ signet rings, nose rings, ²² fine robes, capes, purses, ²³ mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and veils. ²⁴ “And it will come about that instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well-set hair, baldness; instead of a fine robe, sackcloth; and instead of beauty, shame. ²⁵ Your men will die violently, while your forces fall in battle ²⁶ and her gates lament and mourn. Ravaged, she will sit on the ground.”

¹⁰ For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock that is your strength. Therefore even though you plant delightful plants, sowing them with imported vine-seedlings, ¹¹ at the time that you plant them, carefully making them grow, the very morning you make your seed to sprout, your harvest will be ruined in a time of grief and unbearable pain.”

²⁷ “Therefore, look out! I’ve reached out to oppose you. I withdrew your rations and delivered you to those Philistine women who hate you. Even they were embarrassed at your wicked ways!

³⁹ “I’ll also deliver you into their control, and they’ll break down your mounds, tear down your high places, strip off your clothes, remove your fine jewels, and then they’ll leave you stark naked!

²⁶ They’ll strip off your clothes and confiscate your jewelry.

¹³ The northern king will return and raise a greater army than before. After a few years, he’ll advance with a great force and with a vast amount of armaments.’”

³ Otherwise, I’ll strip her naked— as she was on the day she was born— make her like a wilderness, turn her into a parched land, and cause her to die of thirst.

⁷ “Because they sow the wind, they will reap the wind storm. The plant has no stalk and its bud yields no grain. Even if there’s a harvest, foreigners will gobble it up.

² Neither threshing floor nor winepress will sustain them, and the new wine will disappoint her.

¹⁴ Who knows? He will turn back and relent, will he not, leaving behind a blessing, even a grain offering and drink offering for the LORD your God?”

¹³ Therefore their possessions will be seized as plunder and their homes left in ruins. They may build houses, but they won’t live in them. They may plant vineyards, but they won’t drink their wine.”
Zephaniah’s Description of the Day of the LORD

⁶ You have sowed much but have reaped little. You have eaten but don’t have enough to become satisfied. You have drunk but don’t have enough to become intoxicated. You have clothed yourself but don’t have enough to keep warm. And the hired laborer deposits his salary in a bag full of holes!’”
⁷ Command to Rebuild the Temple“This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: ‘Carefully consider your ways: ⁸ Go up into the mountains, bring timber, and reconstruct my house. Then I will be pleased with it and I will be honored,’ says the LORD. ⁹ ‘You turned away in pursuit of abundance, but look at how little you found! What you did manage to bring home, I blew away! And why?’ declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. ‘It’s because of my house! It lies in ruins while each of you runs off to his own house! ¹⁰ That is why the heavens keep withholding dew from you, and the earth withholds her fruit. ¹¹ I sent a drought on the land, on the mountains, on your grain, on your new wines, on your oil—on everything the ground produces—on men, on livestock, and on everything you do!’”

¹⁶ When someone came to a pile of grain to get 20 measures, there were only ten. Or when someone approached the wine press to siphon out 50 measures, there were only 20. ¹⁷ I punished you and everything that you undertook—with scorching wind, with mildew, and with hail, and you still did not return to me,’ declares the LORD.

⁴ Even though Edom may claim, ‘We were crushed, but we will return and rebuild the ruins,’ this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: “They may rebuild, but I’ll demolish. People will call them, ‘The Wicked Land,’ and, ‘The People With Whom the LORD is Forever Angry.’

¹⁸ When you return, you will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, and between the one who serves God and the one who does not.”