Bible Cross References
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Hosea 9:1-5
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People of Israel, stop celebrating your festivals like pagans. You have turned away from your God and have been unfaithful to him. All over the land you have sold yourselves like prostitutes to the god Baal and have loved the grain you thought he paid you with!
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But soon you will not have enough grain and olive oil, and there will be no wine.
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The people of Israel will not remain in the LORD's land, but will have to go back to Egypt and will have to eat forbidden food in Assyria.
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In those foreign lands they will not be able to make wine offerings to the LORD or bring their sacrifices to him. Their food will defile everyone who eats it, like food eaten at funerals. It will be used only to satisfy their hunger; none of it will be taken as an offering to the LORD's Temple.
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And when the time comes for the appointed festivals in honor of the LORD, what will they do then?
Isaiah 24:7-11
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The grapevines wither, and wine is becoming scarce. Everyone who was once happy is now sad,
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and the joyful music of their harps and drums has ceased.
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There is no more happy singing over wine; no one enjoys its taste any more.
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In the city everything is in chaos, and people lock themselves in their houses for safety.
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People shout in the streets because there is no more wine. Happiness is gone forever; it has been banished from the land.
Jeremiah 7:34
The land will become a desert. In the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the happy sounds of wedding feasts.
Jeremiah 16:9
Listen to what I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, have to say. I will silence the sounds of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. The people here will live to see this happen.
Jeremiah 25:10
I will silence their shouts of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. They will have no oil for their lamps, and there will be no more grain.
Ezekiel 26:13
I will put an end to all your songs, and I will silence the music of your harps.
Nahum 1:10
Like tangled thorns and dry straw you drunkards will be burned up!
Revelation 18:22
The music of harps and of human voices, of players of the flute and the trumpet, will never be heard in you again! No workman in any trade will ever be found in you again; and the sound of the millstone will be heard no more!
Revelation 18:23
Never again will the light of a lamp be seen in you; no more will the voices of brides and grooms be heard in you. Your merchants were the most powerful in all the world, and with your false magic you deceived all the peoples of the world!"
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1 Kings 12:32
Jeroboam also instituted a religious festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival in Judah. On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the gold bull-calves he had made, and he placed there in Bethel the priests serving at the places of worship he had built.
Isaiah 1:13
It's useless to bring your offerings. I am disgusted with the smell of the incense you burn. I cannot stand your New Moon Festivals, your Sabbaths, and your religious gatherings; they are all corrupted by your sins.
Isaiah 1:14
I hate your New Moon Festivals and holy days; they are a burden that I am tired of bearing.
Amos 5:21
The LORD says, "I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them!
Amos 8:3
On that day the songs in the palace will become cries of mourning. There will be dead bodies everywhere. They will be cast out in silence."
Amos 8:5
You say to yourselves, "We can hardly wait for the holy days to be over so that we can sell our grain. When will the Sabbath end, so that we can start selling again? Then we can overcharge, use false measures, and fix the scales to cheat our customers.
Amos 8:9
The time is coming when I will make the sun go down at noon and the earth grow dark in daytime. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken.
Amos 8:10
I will turn your festivals into funerals and change your glad songs into cries of grief. I will make you shave your heads and wear sackcloth, and you will be like parents mourning for their only child. That day will be bitter to the end.