Hosea 7:14
Good News Translation
They have not prayed to me sincerely, but instead they throw themselves down and wail as the heathen do. When they pray for grain and wine, they gash themselves like pagans. What rebels they are!

New Revised Standard Version
They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; they gash themselves for grain and wine; they rebel against me.

Contemporary English Version
They don't really pray to me; they just howl in their beds. They have rejected me for Baal and slashed themselves, in the hope that Baal will bless their crops.

New American Bible
They have not cried to me from their hearts when they wailed upon their beds; For wheat and wine they lacerated themselves; they rebelled against me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.

they have not.

Job 35:9,10 By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants. . . .

Psalm 78:34-37 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning. . . .

Isaiah 29:13 And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men:

Jeremiah 3:10 And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not returned to me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.

Zechariah 7:5 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?

when.

Isaiah 52:5 And now what have I here, saith the Lord: for my people is taken away gratis. They that rule over them treat them unjustly, saith the Lord, and my name is continually blasphemed all the day long.

Isaiah 65:14 Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be confounded: behold my servants shall praise for joyfulness of heart, and you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for grief of spirit.

Amos 8:3 And he said: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A hook to draw down fruit. And the Lord said to me: The end is come upon my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.

James 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.

assemble.

Hosea 3:1 And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes.

Exodus 32:6 And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace victims, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

Judges 9:27 Went out into the fields, wasting the vineyards, and treading down the grapes: and singing and dancing, they went into the temple of their god, and in their banquets and cups they cursed Abimelech.

Amos 2:8 And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

Micah 2:11 Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.

Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the innocent.

Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.

James 4:3 You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

Context
Ephraim's Iniquity
13Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be wasted because they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed them: and they have spoken lies against me. 14And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.15And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me.…
Cross References
Judges 9:27
Went out into the fields, wasting the vineyards, and treading down the grapes: and singing and dancing, they went into the temple of their god, and in their banquets and cups they cursed Abimelech.

Job 35:9
By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

Jeremiah 3:10
And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not returned to me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.

Lamentations 2:18
Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls of the daughter of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease.

Hosea 8:2
They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.

Hosea 13:6
According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.

Hosea 13:16
Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.

Amos 2:8
And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

Micah 2:11
Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.

Zechariah 7:5
Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?

Hosea 7:13
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