Hosea 10:1 Israel was a spreading vine; he brought forth fruit for himself. As his fruit increased, he built more altars; as his land prospered, he adorned his sacred s...

10:1 NIV

Parallel Verses

New International Version - Israel was a spreading vine; he brought forth fruit for himself. As his fruit increased, he built more altars; as his land prospered, he adorned his sacred stones.
新标点和合本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，结果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭坛；地土越肥美，就越造美丽的柱像。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，结果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭坛；土地越肥美，就越建造美丽的柱像。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，结果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭坛；土地越肥美，就越建造美丽的柱像。
当代译本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，硕果累累。可是，他结果越多，建造的祭坛就越多；土地出产越丰富，他就把神柱装饰得越美丽。
圣经新译本 - 以色列最茂盛的葡萄树，自己能结果子。他的果子越多，他就越增添祭坛；他的土地越肥美，他就使柱像越美丽。
现代标点和合本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，结果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭坛；地土越肥美，就越造美丽的柱像。
和合本（拼音版） - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，结果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭坛；地土越肥美，就越造美丽的柱像。
New International Reader's Version - Israel was like a spreading vine. They produced fruit for themselves. As they grew more fruit, they built more altars. As their land became richer, they made more beautiful the sacred stones they worshiped.
English Standard Version - Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars.
New Living Translation - How prosperous Israel is— a luxuriant vine loaded with fruit. But the richer the people get, the more pagan altars they build. The more bountiful their harvests, the more beautiful their sacred pillars.
The Message - Israel was once a lush vine, bountiful in grapes. The more lavish the harvest, the more promiscuous the worship. The more money they got, the more they squandered on gods-in-their-own-image. Their sweet smiles are sheer lies. They’re guilty as sin. God will smash their worship shrines, pulverize their god-images.
Christian Standard Bible - Israel is a lush vine; it yields fruit for itself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better they made the sacred pillars.
New American Standard Bible - Israel is a luxuriant vine; He produces fruit for himself. The more his fruit, The more altars he made; The richer his land, The better he made the memorial stones.
New King James Version - Israel empties his vine; He brings forth fruit for himself. According to the multitude of his fruit He has increased the altars; According to the bounty of his land They have embellished his sacred pillars.
Amplified Bible - Israel is a luxuriant and prolific vine; He produces fruit for himself. The more his fruit, The more altars he made [to Baal]; The richer his land, The better he made the [idolatrous] pillars.
American Standard Version - Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly pillars.
King James Version - Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
New English Translation - Israel was a fertile vine that yielded fruit. As his fruit multiplied, he multiplied altars to Baal. As his land prospered, they adorned the fertility pillars.
World English Bible - Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
新標點和合本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹，結果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭壇；地土越肥美，就越造美麗的柱像。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹，結果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭壇；土地越肥美，就越建造美麗的柱像。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹，結果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭壇；土地越肥美，就越建造美麗的柱像。
當代譯本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹，碩果纍纍。可是，他結果越多，建造的祭壇就越多；土地出產越豐富，他就把神柱裝飾得越美麗。
聖經新譯本 - 以色列最茂盛的葡萄樹，自己能結果子。他的果子越多，他就越增添祭壇；他的土地越肥美，他就使柱像越美麗。
呂振中譯本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹、能結果子的；他的果子越多，他的祭壇就越增多；他的地土越肥美，他就越使崇拜柱子美麗。
現代標點和合本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹，結果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭壇；地土越肥美，就越造美麗的柱像。
文理和合譯本 - 以色列為茂盛之葡萄樹、結實纍纍、其實愈繁、築壇愈多、其地愈美、建柱愈佳、
文理委辦譯本 - 先知曰、以色列族若葡萄樹、枝葉蓁蓁、果實纍纍、結果愈繁、築壇愈多、田疇益肥美、偶像益壯麗、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 以色列若茂盛之葡萄樹、結果繁多、結果愈繁、築祭壇愈多、土地愈腴美、造偶像偶像或作柱像愈壯麗、造偶像愈壯麗或作愈妝飾偶像
Nueva Versión Internacional - Israel era una vid frondosa que daba fruto a su antojo. Pero cuanto más aumentaba su fruto, más altares se construía; cuanto más prosperaba su país, más hermosas hacía sus piedras sagradas.
현대인의 성경 - 이스라엘 백성은 무성한 포도나무와 같아서 열매를 많이 맺는다. 열매 가 많을수록 그들은 제단을 많이 만들고 그 땅이 아름다울수록 그들은 돌기둥의 우상을 아름답게 꾸민다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Израиль – ветвистый виноград; он производил плод для себя. Чем больше было у него плодов, тем больше он возводил жертвенников. Чем плодороднее была его земля, тем лучше он украшал свои священные столбы .
Восточный перевод - Исраил – ветвистый виноград; он производил плод для себя. Чем больше было у него плодов, тем больше он возводил жертвенников; чем плодороднее была его земля, тем лучше он украшал свои священные камни.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Исраил – ветвистый виноград; он производил плод для себя. Чем больше было у него плодов, тем больше он возводил жертвенников; чем плодороднее была его земля, тем лучше он украшал свои священные камни.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Исроил – ветвистый виноград; он производил плод для себя. Чем больше было у него плодов, тем больше он возводил жертвенников; чем плодороднее была его земля, тем лучше он украшал свои священные камни.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Israël est semblable ╵à une vigne ╵qui dégénère , il ne produit du fruit ╵que pour lui-même. Plus il a eu de fruit, plus il a édifié d’autels. Plus sa terre était belle, plus il embellissait les stèles ╵pour ses divinités.
リビングバイブル - 「イスラエルの繁栄ぶりの、なんとすばらしいことか。まるで実を豊かに結んだぶどうの木のようだ。ところが、わたしが富を増やせば増やすほど、異教の神々の祭壇に多くの物が供えられる。収穫を豊かにすればするほど、それだけ多くの美しい彫像や偶像が立てられる。
Nova Versão Internacional - Israel era como videira viçosa; cobria-se de frutos. Quanto mais produzia, mais altares construía; Quanto mais sua terra prosperava, mais enfeitava suas colunas sagradas.
Hoffnung für alle - Israel war wie ein prächtiger Weinstock mit vielen Früchten. Ja, die Israeliten hatten es gut! Je besser es ihnen ging, desto mehr Altäre bauten sie. Je größer der Wohlstand im Land wurde, desto schöner verzierten sie die heiligen Steinsäulen.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ít-ra-ên cường thịnh là thế nào— như cây nho tươi tốt đầy hoa trái. Dân chúng càng giàu có, họ càng lập thêm nhiều bàn thờ. Những mùa thu hoạch của họ càng dồi dào, thì các trụ thờ của họ càng xinh đẹp.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - อิสราเอลเป็นองุ่นเถางาม เขาเกิดผลเพื่อตัวเอง เมื่อผลยิ่งดก เขาก็ยิ่งสร้างแท่นบูชาเพิ่ม เมื่อดินแดนของเขารุ่งเรืองขึ้น เขาก็ตกแต่งหินศักดิ์สิทธิ์
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - อิสราเอลเป็นเถาองุ่นงาม ที่แผ่ออกไปและออกผล ยิ่งเกิดผลมากขึ้นเท่าใด อิสราเอลก็ยิ่งจะสร้างแท่นบูชามากขึ้นเท่านั้น ในเวลาที่แผ่นดินอุดมสมบูรณ์ อิสราเอลก็ตกแต่งเสาหินของเขา

Cross Reference

John 15:1 - “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
John 15:2 - He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
John 15:3 - You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
John 15:4 - Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
John 15:5 - “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:6 - If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
Hosea 8:4 - They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.
Hosea 13:6 - When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.
Hosea 12:8 - Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin.”
2 Corinthians 5:16 - So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
Romans 14:7 - For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone.
Romans 14:8 - If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
Philippians 2:21 - For everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
Hosea 13:2 - Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of these people, “They offer human sacrifices! They kiss calf-idols!”
Hosea 2:8 - She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold— which they used for Baal.
Nahum 2:2 - The Lord will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and have ruined their vines.
Zechariah 7:5 - “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?
Zechariah 7:6 - And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?
Leviticus 26:1 - “ ‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.
1 Kings 14:23 - They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
Ezekiel 15:1 - The word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 15:2 - “Son of man, how is the wood of a vine different from that of a branch from any of the trees in the forest?
Ezekiel 15:3 - Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful? Do they make pegs from it to hang things on?
Ezekiel 15:4 - And after it is thrown on the fire as fuel and the fire burns both ends and chars the middle, is it then useful for anything?
Ezekiel 15:5 - If it was not useful for anything when it was whole, how much less can it be made into something useful when the fire has burned it and it is charred?
Jeremiah 2:28 - Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns.
Hosea 12:11 - Is Gilead wicked? Its people are worthless! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Their altars will be like piles of stones on a plowed field.
Isaiah 5:1 - I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
Isaiah 5:2 - He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.
Isaiah 5:3 - “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 5:4 - What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?
Isaiah 5:5 - Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
Isaiah 5:6 - I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”
Isaiah 5:7 - The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.
Hosea 8:11 - “Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning.

Parallel Verses

Cross Reference

New International Version - Israel was a spreading vine; he brought forth fruit for himself. As his fruit increased, he built more altars; as his land prospered, he adorned his sacred stones.
新标点和合本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，结果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭坛；地土越肥美，就越造美丽的柱像。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，结果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭坛；土地越肥美，就越建造美丽的柱像。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，结果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭坛；土地越肥美，就越建造美丽的柱像。
当代译本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，硕果累累。可是，他结果越多，建造的祭坛就越多；土地出产越丰富，他就把神柱装饰得越美丽。
圣经新译本 - 以色列最茂盛的葡萄树，自己能结果子。他的果子越多，他就越增添祭坛；他的土地越肥美，他就使柱像越美丽。
现代标点和合本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，结果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭坛；地土越肥美，就越造美丽的柱像。
和合本（拼音版） - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，结果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭坛；地土越肥美，就越造美丽的柱像。
New International Reader's Version - Israel was like a spreading vine. They produced fruit for themselves. As they grew more fruit, they built more altars. As their land became richer, they made more beautiful the sacred stones they worshiped.
English Standard Version - Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars.
New Living Translation - How prosperous Israel is— a luxuriant vine loaded with fruit. But the richer the people get, the more pagan altars they build. The more bountiful their harvests, the more beautiful their sacred pillars.
The Message - Israel was once a lush vine, bountiful in grapes. The more lavish the harvest, the more promiscuous the worship. The more money they got, the more they squandered on gods-in-their-own-image. Their sweet smiles are sheer lies. They’re guilty as sin. God will smash their worship shrines, pulverize their god-images.
Christian Standard Bible - Israel is a lush vine; it yields fruit for itself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better they made the sacred pillars.
New American Standard Bible - Israel is a luxuriant vine; He produces fruit for himself. The more his fruit, The more altars he made; The richer his land, The better he made the memorial stones.
New King James Version - Israel empties his vine; He brings forth fruit for himself. According to the multitude of his fruit He has increased the altars; According to the bounty of his land They have embellished his sacred pillars.
Amplified Bible - Israel is a luxuriant and prolific vine; He produces fruit for himself. The more his fruit, The more altars he made [to Baal]; The richer his land, The better he made the [idolatrous] pillars.
American Standard Version - Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly pillars.
King James Version - Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
New English Translation - Israel was a fertile vine that yielded fruit. As his fruit multiplied, he multiplied altars to Baal. As his land prospered, they adorned the fertility pillars.
World English Bible - Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
新標點和合本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹，結果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭壇；地土越肥美，就越造美麗的柱像。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹，結果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭壇；土地越肥美，就越建造美麗的柱像。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹，結果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭壇；土地越肥美，就越建造美麗的柱像。
當代譯本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹，碩果纍纍。可是，他結果越多，建造的祭壇就越多；土地出產越豐富，他就把神柱裝飾得越美麗。
聖經新譯本 - 以色列最茂盛的葡萄樹，自己能結果子。他的果子越多，他就越增添祭壇；他的土地越肥美，他就使柱像越美麗。
呂振中譯本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹、能結果子的；他的果子越多，他的祭壇就越增多；他的地土越肥美，他就越使崇拜柱子美麗。
現代標點和合本 - 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹，結果繁多。果子越多，就越增添祭壇；地土越肥美，就越造美麗的柱像。
文理和合譯本 - 以色列為茂盛之葡萄樹、結實纍纍、其實愈繁、築壇愈多、其地愈美、建柱愈佳、
文理委辦譯本 - 先知曰、以色列族若葡萄樹、枝葉蓁蓁、果實纍纍、結果愈繁、築壇愈多、田疇益肥美、偶像益壯麗、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 以色列若茂盛之葡萄樹、結果繁多、結果愈繁、築祭壇愈多、土地愈腴美、造偶像偶像或作柱像愈壯麗、造偶像愈壯麗或作愈妝飾偶像
Nueva Versión Internacional - Israel era una vid frondosa que daba fruto a su antojo. Pero cuanto más aumentaba su fruto, más altares se construía; cuanto más prosperaba su país, más hermosas hacía sus piedras sagradas.
현대인의 성경 - 이스라엘 백성은 무성한 포도나무와 같아서 열매를 많이 맺는다. 열매 가 많을수록 그들은 제단을 많이 만들고 그 땅이 아름다울수록 그들은 돌기둥의 우상을 아름답게 꾸민다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Израиль – ветвистый виноград; он производил плод для себя. Чем больше было у него плодов, тем больше он возводил жертвенников. Чем плодороднее была его земля, тем лучше он украшал свои священные столбы .
Восточный перевод - Исраил – ветвистый виноград; он производил плод для себя. Чем больше было у него плодов, тем больше он возводил жертвенников; чем плодороднее была его земля, тем лучше он украшал свои священные камни.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Исраил – ветвистый виноград; он производил плод для себя. Чем больше было у него плодов, тем больше он возводил жертвенников; чем плодороднее была его земля, тем лучше он украшал свои священные камни.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Исроил – ветвистый виноград; он производил плод для себя. Чем больше было у него плодов, тем больше он возводил жертвенников; чем плодороднее была его земля, тем лучше он украшал свои священные камни.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Israël est semblable ╵à une vigne ╵qui dégénère , il ne produit du fruit ╵que pour lui-même. Plus il a eu de fruit, plus il a édifié d’autels. Plus sa terre était belle, plus il embellissait les stèles ╵pour ses divinités.
リビングバイブル - 「イスラエルの繁栄ぶりの、なんとすばらしいことか。まるで実を豊かに結んだぶどうの木のようだ。ところが、わたしが富を増やせば増やすほど、異教の神々の祭壇に多くの物が供えられる。収穫を豊かにすればするほど、それだけ多くの美しい彫像や偶像が立てられる。
Nova Versão Internacional - Israel era como videira viçosa; cobria-se de frutos. Quanto mais produzia, mais altares construía; Quanto mais sua terra prosperava, mais enfeitava suas colunas sagradas.
Hoffnung für alle - Israel war wie ein prächtiger Weinstock mit vielen Früchten. Ja, die Israeliten hatten es gut! Je besser es ihnen ging, desto mehr Altäre bauten sie. Je größer der Wohlstand im Land wurde, desto schöner verzierten sie die heiligen Steinsäulen.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ít-ra-ên cường thịnh là thế nào— như cây nho tươi tốt đầy hoa trái. Dân chúng càng giàu có, họ càng lập thêm nhiều bàn thờ. Những mùa thu hoạch của họ càng dồi dào, thì các trụ thờ của họ càng xinh đẹp.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - อิสราเอลเป็นองุ่นเถางาม เขาเกิดผลเพื่อตัวเอง เมื่อผลยิ่งดก เขาก็ยิ่งสร้างแท่นบูชาเพิ่ม เมื่อดินแดนของเขารุ่งเรืองขึ้น เขาก็ตกแต่งหินศักดิ์สิทธิ์
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - อิสราเอลเป็นเถาองุ่นงาม ที่แผ่ออกไปและออกผล ยิ่งเกิดผลมากขึ้นเท่าใด อิสราเอลก็ยิ่งจะสร้างแท่นบูชามากขึ้นเท่านั้น ในเวลาที่แผ่นดินอุดมสมบูรณ์ อิสราเอลก็ตกแต่งเสาหินของเขา

John 15:1 - “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
John 15:2 - He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
John 15:3 - You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
John 15:4 - Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
John 15:5 - “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:6 - If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
Hosea 8:4 - They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.
Hosea 13:6 - When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.
Hosea 12:8 - Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin.”
2 Corinthians 5:16 - So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
Romans 14:7 - For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone.
Romans 14:8 - If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
Philippians 2:21 - For everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
Hosea 13:2 - Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of these people, “They offer human sacrifices! They kiss calf-idols!”
Hosea 2:8 - She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold— which they used for Baal.
Nahum 2:2 - The Lord will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and have ruined their vines.
Zechariah 7:5 - “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?
Zechariah 7:6 - And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?
Leviticus 26:1 - “ ‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.
1 Kings 14:23 - They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
Ezekiel 15:1 - The word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 15:2 - “Son of man, how is the wood of a vine different from that of a branch from any of the trees in the forest?
Ezekiel 15:3 - Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful? Do they make pegs from it to hang things on?
Ezekiel 15:4 - And after it is thrown on the fire as fuel and the fire burns both ends and chars the middle, is it then useful for anything?
Ezekiel 15:5 - If it was not useful for anything when it was whole, how much less can it be made into something useful when the fire has burned it and it is charred?
Jeremiah 2:28 - Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns.
Hosea 12:11 - Is Gilead wicked? Its people are worthless! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Their altars will be like piles of stones on a plowed field.
Isaiah 5:1 - I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
Isaiah 5:2 - He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.
Isaiah 5:3 - “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 5:4 - What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?
Isaiah 5:5 - Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
Isaiah 5:6 - I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”
Isaiah 5:7 - The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.
Hosea 8:11 - “Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning.