Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind
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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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Cross References
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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