Hosea 6 - 8
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"Come, let us y return to the Lord;
for z he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and a he will bind us up.
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After two days b he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
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c Let us know; c let us press on to know the Lord;
d his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us e as the showers,
f as the spring rains that water the earth."
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What shall I do with you, g O h Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O h Judah?
Your love is i like a morning cloud,
i like the dew that goes early away.
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Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them j by the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
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For k I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
l the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
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But m like Adam they n transgressed the covenant;
o there they dealt faithlessly with me.
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p Gilead is a city of evildoers,
q tracked with blood.
9
As robbers r lie in wait for a man,
so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to s Shechem;
they commit villainy.
10
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
t Ephraim's whoredom is there; u Israel is defiled.
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For you also, O u Judah, v a harvest is appointed,
when w I restore the fortunes of my people.
Hosea 7
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x When I would heal Israel,
the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
and the evil deeds of y Samaria;
for z they deal falsely;
the thief breaks in,
and the bandits raid outside.
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But they do not consider
that a I remember all their evil.
Now b their deeds surround them;
c they are before my face.
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By their evil d they make d the king glad,
and the princes by their treachery.
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e They are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.
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On the day of f our king, the princes
became sick with the heat of wine;
he stretched out his hand with mockers.
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For with hearts like an oven g they approach their intrigue;
all night their anger smolders;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
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All of them are hot as an oven,
and they devour their rulers.
All h their kings i have fallen,
and none of them calls upon me.
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Ephraim j mixes himself with the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake not turned.
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k Strangers devour his strength,
and l he knows it not;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
and l he knows it not.
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m The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
n yet they do not return to the Lord their God,
nor seek him, for all this.
11
Ephraim is like a dove,
o silly and without sense,
calling to p Egypt, going to q Assyria.
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As they go, r I will spread over them my net;
I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
s I will discipline them t according to the report made to their congregation.
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u Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
v I would redeem them,
but w they speak lies against me.
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x They do not cry to me from the heart,
but y they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
they rebel against me.
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Although z I trained and strengthened their arms,
yet they devise evil against me.
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They a return, but not upward;
they are b like a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
because of c the insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derision d in the land of Egypt.
Hosea 8
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Set e the trumpet to your lips!
One f like a vulture is over the house of the Lord,
because g they have transgressed my covenant
and rebelled against my law.
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To me they cry,
h "My God, we - Israel - know you."
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Israel has spurned the good;
the enemy shall pursue him.
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i They made kings, j but not through me.
They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
for their own destruction.
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k I have spurned your calf, O Samaria.
My anger burns against them.
l How long will they be incapable of innocence?
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For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
it is not God.
k The calf of Samaria
m shall be broken to pieces.
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For n they sow the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
it shall yield no flour;
if it were to yield,
o strangers would devour it.
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p Israel is swallowed up;
already they are among the nations
as q a useless vessel.
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For r they have gone up to Assyria,
s a wild donkey wandering alone;
Ephraim has hired lovers.
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Though they hire allies among the nations,
I will soon gather them up.
And t the king and princes u shall soon writhe
because of the tribute.
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Because Ephraim v has multiplied altars for sinning,
they have become to him altars for sinning.
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w Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands,
they would be regarded as a strange thing.
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As for my sacrificial offerings,
x they sacrifice meat and eat it,
but the Lord does not accept them.
y Now he will remember their iniquity
and punish their sins;
z they shall return to Egypt.
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For a Israel has forgotten b his Maker
and c built palaces,
and a Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
so d I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour her strongholds.
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Hosea 14:1
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.
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Hosea 5:14
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
Hosea 13:7 - 8
So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
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Isaiah 30:26
Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.
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Psalms 71:20
You who have made me see many troubles and cala...
Luke 24:27
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, ...
Luke 24:44
Then he said to them, "These are my words that ...
John 2:22
When therefore he was raised from the dead, his...
John 20:9
For as yet they did not understand the Scriptur...
1 Corinthians 15:4
That he was buried, that he was raised on the t...
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Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
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Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
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Micah 5:2
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
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Hosea 14:5
I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon.
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Joel 2:23
Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
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Hosea 11:8
How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.
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Hosea 6:10 - 11
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible t...
Hosea 4:15
Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Ju...
Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Isra...
Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built pa...
Hosea 10:11
Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh...
Hosea 11:12
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the ho...
Hosea 12:1 - 2
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east ...
Hosea 5:9 - 14
Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of...
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Hosea 6:10 - 11
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible t...
Hosea 4:15
Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Ju...
Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Isra...
Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built pa...
Hosea 10:11
Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh...
Hosea 11:12
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the ho...
Hosea 12:1 - 2
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east ...
Hosea 5:9 - 14
Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of...
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Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
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Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
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Jeremiah 23:29
Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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Matthew 9:13
Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
Matthew 12:7
And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
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Hosea 2:20
I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.
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Genesis 3:11
He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?
Job 31:33
If I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my bosom.
Romans 5:14
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
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Hosea 8:1
Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.
Deuteronomy 17:2
If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant.
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Hosea 5:7
They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord ; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
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Hosea 12:11
If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.
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Hosea 4:2
There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
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Hosea 5:1
Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.
Hosea 7:6
For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
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Joshua 24:1
Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
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Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from m...
Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers; they are like a heated...
Hosea 4:2
There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and...
Hosea 4:12
My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their...
Hosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they play...
Hosea 9:10
Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. ...
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Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
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Hosea 6:10
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.
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Joel 3:13
Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
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Psalms 126:1
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
Job 42:10
And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
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Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
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Jeremiah 23:13
In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
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Hosea 4:2
There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
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Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled.
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Psalms 9:16
The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah
Proverbs 5:22
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
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Psalms 90:8
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
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Hosea 7:5
On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.
Romans 1:32
Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
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Hosea 7:5
On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.
Romans 1:32
Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
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Hosea 6:10
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.
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Hosea 7:3
By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.
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Hosea 6:9
As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy.
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Hosea 8:4
They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.
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2 Kings 15:10
Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him down at Ibleam and put him to death and reigned in his place.
2 Kings 15:14
Then Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and he struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and put him to death and reigned in his place.
2 Kings 15:25
And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty men of the people of Gilead, and struck him down in Samaria, in the citadel of the king's house with Argob and Arieh; he put him to death and reigned in his place.
2 Kings 15:30
Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and struck him down and put him to death and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
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Psalms 106:35
But they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
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Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.
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Isaiah 42:25
So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.
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Isaiah 42:25
So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.
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Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.
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Isaiah 9:13
The people did not turn to him who struck them, nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.
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Hosea 4:11
Whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.
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Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
2 Kings 17:4
But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.
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Hosea 5:13
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.
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Ezekiel 12:13
And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.
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Hosea 10:10
When I please, I will discipline them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are bound up for their double iniquity.
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Leviticus 26:14 - 39
But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments.
Deuteronomy 28:15 - 68
But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
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Hosea 9:12
Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
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Hosea 13:14
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
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Hosea 11:12
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
Micah 6:12
Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
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Psalms 78:36 - 37
But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
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Amos 6:4 - 5
Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall.
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Hosea 11:3
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.
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Hosea 6:1
Come, let us return to the Lord ; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
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Psalms 78:57
But turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
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Psalms 73:9
They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
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Hosea 9:3
They shall not remain in the land of the Lord, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
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Hosea 5:8
Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; we follow you, O Benjamin!
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Deuteronomy 28:49
The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand.
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Hosea 6:7
But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
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Matthew 7:21 - 23
Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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Hosea 7:7
All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.
1 Kings 12:20
And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah only.
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2 Chronicles 13:5
Ought you not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?
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Hosea 10:5 - 6
The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests - those who rejoiced over it and over its glory - for it has departed from them.
1 Kings 12:28
So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
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Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?
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Hosea 8:5
I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
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Micah 1:6 - 7
Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.
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Hosea 10:12 - 13
Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
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Hosea 7:9
Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.
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2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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Jeremiah 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land that they do not know?
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Hosea 5:13
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.
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Jeremiah 2:24
A wild donkey used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
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Ezekiel 26:7
For thus says the Lord God : Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.
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Hosea 4:7
The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.
Hosea 4:10
They shall eat, but not be satisfied; they shall play the whore, but not multiply, because they have forsaken the Lord to cherish
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Hosea 10:1
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.
Hosea 12:11
If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.
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Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Deuteronomy 4:8
And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
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Jeremiah 7:21
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
Amos 4:4
Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
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Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.
Amos 8:7
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: "Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
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Hosea 9:3
They shall not remain in the land of the Lord, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
Deuteronomy 28:68
And the Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.
Hosea 11:5
They shall not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.
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Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
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Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
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Isaiah 17:7
In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.
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Amos 5:11
Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
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Amos 2:5
So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.
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