Quotes About Worship

For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.

I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.

I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

For I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals; no longer will their names be invoked.

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.

My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ëAs surely as the LORD lives!í

Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”

They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.

For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.

Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.

What will you do on the appointed day, on the day of the LORDís feast?

Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.

Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”

The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile.