Hosea 2:11

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Summary

Hosea 2:11

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

Cause

Her feast

General references

Isaiah 24:8

Ezekiel 26:13

Bible References

Cause

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations!

For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on every threshing floor.

The new wine mourns,
The vine decays,
All the merry-hearted sigh.

Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruin.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I am going to

eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.

Moreover, I will

take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

Like tangled thorns,
And like those who are drunken with their drink,
They are consumed
As stubble completely withered.

And the sound of harpists and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters will not be heard in you any longer; and no craftsman of any craft will be found in you any longer; and the sound of a mill will not be heard in you any longer;

Her feast

Jeroboam instituted a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; thus he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made. And he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

“Bring your worthless offerings no longer,

Incense is an abomination to Me.

New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—

I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly.

“I hate, I reject your festivals,
Nor do I

delight in your solemn assemblies.

The songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day,” declares the Lord God. “Many will be the corpses; in every place they will cast them forth in silence.”

General references

The gaiety of tambourines ceases,
The noise of revelers stops,
The gaiety of the harp ceases.

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.