Hosea 12 - 14
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Ephraim feeds on the wind
and pursues z the east wind all day long;
they multiply y falsehood and violence;
a they make a covenant with Assyria,
and b oil is carried to Egypt.
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c The Lord has an indictment against Judah
and will punish Jacob according to his ways;
he will repay him according to his deeds.
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d In the womb he took his brother by the heel,
and in his manhood he strove with God.
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He strove with the angel and prevailed;
he wept and sought his favor.
e He met God at Bethel,
and there God spoke with us -
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the Lord, the God of hosts,
f the Lord is his memorial name:
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"So you, g by the help of your God, return,
h hold fast to love and justice,
and wait continually for your God."
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A merchant, in whose hands are i false balances,
he loves j to oppress.
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Ephraim has said, "Ah, but k I am rich;
I have found wealth for myself;
in all my labors l they cannot find in me iniquity or sin."
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m I am the Lord your God
from the land of Egypt;
I will again make you n dwell in tents,
as in the days of the appointed feast.
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o I spoke to the prophets;
it was I who multiplied p visions,
and through the prophets gave parables.
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q If there is iniquity in Gilead,
they shall surely come to nothing:
r in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;
s their altars also are like stone heaps
t on the furrows of the field.
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u Jacob fled to the land of Aram;
there Israel v served for a wife,
and for a wife he guarded sheep.
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By w a prophet x the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt,
and by a prophet he was guarded.
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y Ephraim has given bitter provocation;
so his Lord z will leave his bloodguilt on him
a and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds.
Hosea 13
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When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;
b he was exalted in Israel,
but he incurred guilt c through Baal and died.
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And now they sin more and more,
and d make for themselves metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver,
e all of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of them,
"Those who offer human sacrifice f kiss calves!"
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Therefore they shall be g like the morning mist
or g like the dew that goes early away,
h like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or i like smoke from a window.
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But j I am the Lord your God
from the land of Egypt;
k you know no God but me,
and l besides me there is no savior.
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m It was I who knew you in the wilderness,
in the land of drought;
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n but when they had grazed, they became full,
o they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;
o therefore they forgot me.
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So p I am to them like a lion;
q like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
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I will fall upon them r like a bear robbed of her cubs;
I will tear open their breast,
and there I will devour them like a lion,
s as a wild beast would rip them open.
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He destroys you, O Israel,
for you are against me, against t your helper.
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u Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?
Where are all your rulers -
those of whom v you said,
"Give me a king and princes"?
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w I gave you a king in my anger,
and x I took him away in my wrath.
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The iniquity of Ephraim is y bound up;
his sin is y kept in store.
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z The pangs of childbirth come for him,
but he is an unwise son,
for at the right time he does not present himself
a at the opening of the womb.
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b Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol?
b Shall I redeem them from Death?
c O d Death, where are your plagues?
c O d Sheol, where is your sting?
e Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
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Though f he may flourish among his brothers,
g the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,
rising from the wilderness,
h and his fountain shall dry up;
his spring shall be parched;
it shall strip i his treasury
of every precious thing.
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Samaria j shall bear her guilt,
because k she has rebelled against her God;
they shall fall by the sword;
l their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,
and their m pregnant women ripped open.
Hosea 14
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n Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for o you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
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Take with you words
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
"Take away all iniquity;
accept p what is good,
and we will pay with bulls
q the vows of our lips.
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r Assyria shall not save us;
s we will not ride on horses;
and t we will say no more, 'Our God,'
to the work of our hands.
u In you the orphan finds mercy."
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I v will heal their apostasy;
w I will love them freely,
for my anger has turned from them.
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x I will be like the dew to Israel;
y he shall blossom like the lily;
he shall take root like the trees z of Lebanon;
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his shoots shall spread out;
his beauty shall be a like the olive,
and his fragrance like Lebanon.
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They shall return and b dwell beneath my shadow;
they shall flourish like the grain;
they shall blossom like the vine;
their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
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O c Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after you.
I am like an evergreen cypress;
d from me comes your fruit.
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e Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
whoever is discerning, let him know them;
for the ways of the Lord are right,
and f the upright walk in them,
f but transgressors stumble in them.
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Hosea 13:15
Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
Jeremiah 18:17
Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.
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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.
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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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Hosea 7:11
Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
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 4:1
Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land.
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Genesis 25:26
Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
Genesis 27:36
Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?
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Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!
Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Genesis 35:9 - 10
God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
Genesis 35:15
So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
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Exodus 3:15
God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
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Hosea 14:1 - 2
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Joel 2:12 - 13
Yet even now," declares the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.
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Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Amos 8:5
Saying, "When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances.
Micah 6:11
Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 20:23
Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
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Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
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Zechariah 11:5
Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the Lord, I have become rich,' and their own shepherds have no pity on them.
Revelation 3:17
For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
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Deuteronomy 29:19
One who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, 'I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.
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Hosea 13:4
But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
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Leviticus 23:39 - 43
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
Nehemiah 8:14 - 18
And they found it written in the Law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.
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2 Kings 17:13
Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
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Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
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Hosea 6:8
Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.
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Hosea 4:15
Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and swear not, "As the Lord lives.
Hosea 9:15
Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.
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Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.
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Hosea 10:4
They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
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Genesis 28:5
Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
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Genesis 29:20
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Genesis 29:28
Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
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Deuteronomy 18:15
The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers - it is to him you shall listen -
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Exodus 12:50 - 51
All the people of Israel did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
Psalms 77:20
You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Isaiah 63:11 - 14
Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit.
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2 Kings 17:17
And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
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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 12:2
The Lord has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds.
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Amos 6:13
You who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, "Have we not by our own strength captured Karnaim for ourselves?
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Hosea 11:2
The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.
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Hosea 2:8
And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
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Psalms 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
Isaiah 40:19 - 20
An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.
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1 Kings 19:18
Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.
Job 31:26 - 27
If I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor.
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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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Psalms 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
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Psalms 68:2
As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God!
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Hosea 12:9
I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
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Exodus 20:3
You shall have no other gods before me.
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Isaiah 43:11
I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.
Isaiah 45:21
Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord ? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.
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Deuteronomy 2:7
For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing."
Amos 3:2
You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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Hosea 4:7
The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.
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Deuteronomy 8:12
Lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them.
Deuteronomy 8:14
Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
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Deuteronomy 8:12
Lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them.
Deuteronomy 8:14
Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
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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.
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Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.
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2 Samuel 17:8
Hushai said, "You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.
Proverbs 17:12
Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly.
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Hosea 2:12
And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, 'These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.' I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
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Deuteronomy 33:26
There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.
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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.
Hosea 10:3
For now they will say: "We have no king, for we do not fear the Lord ; and a king - what could he do for us?
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1 Samuel 8:5
And said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.
1 Samuel 8:19
But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, "No! But there shall be a king over us.
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1 Samuel 8:22
And the Lord said to Samuel, "Obey their voice and make them a king." Samuel then said to the men of Israel, "Go every man to his city.
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1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.
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Job 14:17
My transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
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Job 14:17
My transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
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Isaiah 13:8
They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
While people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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2 Kings 19:3
They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
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Isaiah 25:8
He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 26:19
Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.
Ezekiel 37:12
Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God : Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel.
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Isaiah 25:8
He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 26:19
Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.
Ezekiel 37:12
Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God : Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel.
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1 Corinthians 15:55
"O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"
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1 Corinthians 15:55
"O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"
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Ezekiel 14:21
For thus says the Lord God : How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
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Ezekiel 14:21
For thus says the Lord God : How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
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Ezekiel 9:10
As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads.
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Genesis 41:52
The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
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Ezekiel 19:12
But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off and withered. As for its strong stem, fire consumed it.
Jonah 4:8
When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, "It is better for me to die than to live.
Habakkuk 1:9
They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand.
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Ezekiel 17:10
Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it - wither away on the bed where it sprouted?
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Hosea 12:8
Ephraim has said, "Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.
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Habakkuk 1:11
Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!
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2 Kings 18:12
Because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.
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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!
Hosea 10:14
Therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
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2 Kings 8:12
And Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.
2 Kings 15:16
At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant.
Amos 1:13
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
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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.
Hosea 12:6
"So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
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 13:9
He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper.
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Hosea 5:15
I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.
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Hebrews 13:15
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
Psalms 50:13 - 14
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
Psalms 69:30 - 31
I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
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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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Isaiah 30:16
And you said, "No! We will flee upon horses"; therefore you shall flee away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"; therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
Isaiah 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!
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Hosea 14:8
O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.
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Psalms 10:14
But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
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Jeremiah 3:22
Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
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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Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
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Hosea 6:3
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord ; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.
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Isaiah 27:6
In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.
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Psalms 92:12
The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Isaiah 35:2
It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God.
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Psalms 52:8
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.
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Psalms 91:1
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
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Hosea 14:3
Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, 'Our God,' to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.
Isaiah 30:22
Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, "Be gone!
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Hosea 2:8
And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
Hosea 2:23
And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.'
John 15:4 - 5
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
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Cross References
Psalms 107:43
Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:12
Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Daniel 12:10
Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
John 8:47
Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.
John 18:37
Then Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world - to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.
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Cross References
Proverbs 10:29
The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.
Luke 2:34
And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, "Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed
2 Corinthians 2:16
To one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
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Cross References
Proverbs 10:29
The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.
Luke 2:34
And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, "Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed
2 Corinthians 2:16
To one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
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