The Lord Will Punish Israel
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Rejoice not, O Israel!
Exult not like the peoples;
e for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
f You have loved a prostitute's wages
on all threshing floors.
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g Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
and g the new wine shall fail them.
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They shall not remain in h the land of the Lord,
but i Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
and j they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
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k They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
l and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like m mourners' bread to them;
all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
n it shall not come to the house of the Lord.
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o What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
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For behold, they are going away from destruction;
but p Egypt shall gather them;
Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess q their precious things of silver;
r thorns shall be in their tents.
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s The days of punishment have come;
the days of recompense have come;
Israel shall know it.
t The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
and great hatred.
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The prophet is u the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
yet v a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
and hatred in the house of his God.
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w They have deeply corrupted themselves
as x in the days of Gibeah:
w he will remember their iniquity;
he will punish their sins.
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Like grapes in the wilderness,
y I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
in its first season,
I saw your fathers.
But z they came to Baal-peor
and a consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
and b became detestable like the thing they loved.
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Ephraim's c glory shall fly away like a bird -
d no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
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e Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
f Woe to them
when g I depart from them!
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Ephraim, h as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow;
but e Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.
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Give them, O Lord -
what will you give?
Give them i a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
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Every evil of theirs is in j 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 k their princes are l rebels.
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Ephraim is stricken;
m their root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even n though they give birth,
e I will put their beloved children to death.
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o My God will reject them
because they have not listened to him;
p they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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q Israel is a luxuriant vine
that yields its fruit.
The more his fruit increased,
r the more altars he built;
as his country improved,
he improved his pillars.
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Their heart is false;
now they must bear their guilt.
The Lord will break down their altars
and destroy their pillars.
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For now they will say:
s "We have no king,
for we do not fear the Lord;
and a king - what could he do for us?"
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They utter t mere words;
with empty oaths they make covenants;
so u judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
v in the furrows of the field.
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The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
for w the calf of x Beth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests -
those who rejoiced over it and y over its glory -
for it has departed from them.
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z The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
as tribute to a the great king.
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
and Israel shall be ashamed b of his idol.
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c Samaria's king shall perish
like a twig on the face of the waters.
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The high places of x Aven, d the sin of Israel,
shall be destroyed.
e Thorn and thistle shall grow up
on their altars,
and f they shall say to the mountains, "Cover us,"
and to the hills, "Fall on us."
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From g the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel;
there they have continued.
Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?
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h When I please, i I will discipline them,
and nations shall be gathered against them
when they are bound up for j their double iniquity.
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Ephraim was a trained calf
that k loved to thresh,
and I spared her fair neck;
but I will put l Ephraim to the yoke;
l Judah must plow;
Jacob must harrow for himself.
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m Sow for yourselves righteousness;
reap steadfast love;
n break up your fallow ground,
for it is the time to seek the Lord,
that he may come and o rain righteousness upon you.
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p You have plowed iniquity;
you have reaped injustice;
you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your own way
and in the multitude of your warriors,
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therefore q the tumult of war shall arise among your people,
and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
as r Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle;
s mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
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Thus it shall be done to you, O t Bethel,
because of your great evil.
At dawn a the king of Israel
shall be utterly cut off.
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Hosea 1:2
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.
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Hosea 2:5
For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.
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Hosea 2:9
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
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Hosea 2:9
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
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Jeremiah 2:7
And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 16:18
But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
Leviticus 25:23
The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.
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Hosea 8:13
As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
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Ezekiel 4:13
And the Lord said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
Daniel 1:8
But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
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Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.
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Hosea 8:13
As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 26:14
I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
Ezekiel 24:17
Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
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Haggai 2:13
Then Haggai said, "If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?" The priests answered and said, "It does become unclean.
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Isaiah 10:3
What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?
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Hosea 8:13
As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
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Hosea 10:8
The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall on us.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats.
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Hosea 10:8
The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall on us.
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Isaiah 10:3
What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?
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Ezekiel 13:3
Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
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Ezekiel 3:17
Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.
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Psalms 91:3
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
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.
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Hosea 5:2
And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.
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Hosea 5:2
And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.
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Hosea 10:9
From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?
Judges 19:22
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
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Psalms 80:8
You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
Isaiah 5:1
Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
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Numbers 25:3
So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
Psalms 106:28
Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
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Hosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.
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Romans 1:28 - 29
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
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Hosea 10:5
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.
Hosea 4:7
The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.
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Isaiah 26:18
We were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
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Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
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Hosea 7:13
Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.
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Hosea 5:6
With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
1 Samuel 28:15 - 16
Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.
Ezekiel 10:18
Then the glory of the Lord went out from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
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Ezekiel 27:3
And say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord God : "O Tyre, you have said, 'I am perfect in beauty.
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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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Luke 23:29
For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!
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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 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 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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Hosea 5:2
And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.
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Hosea 9:11
Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird - no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
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Hosea 9:12 - 13
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 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 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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Deuteronomy 28:64 - 65
And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
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Psalms 80:8 - 11
You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
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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 10:7
Samaria's king shall perish like a twig on the face of the waters.
Hosea 10:15
Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great evil. At dawn the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off.
1 Samuel 12:12
And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us,' when the Lord your God was your king.
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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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Amos 5:7
O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Amos 6:12
Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood -
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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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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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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.
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Hosea 9:11
Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird - no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
1 Samuel 4:21 - 22
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
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Isaiah 46:2
They stoop; they bow down together; they cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity.
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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 11:6
The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels.
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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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Hosea 10:5
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.
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1 Kings 12:30
Then this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one.
Amos 8:14
Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, 'As your god lives, O Dan,' and, 'As the Way of Beersheba lives,' they shall fall, and never rise again.
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Hosea 9:6
For behold, they are going away from destruction; but Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.
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Luke 23:30
Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.
Revelation 6:16
Calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
Isaiah 2:19
And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
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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.
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Exodus 32:34
But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.
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Hosea 7:12
As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.
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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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Deuteronomy 25:4
You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned?
1 Timothy 5:18
For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain," and, "The laborer deserves his wages.
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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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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.
Galatians 6:8
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
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Jeremiah 4:3
For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
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Isaiah 45:8
Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the Lord have created it.
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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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Hosea 1:5
And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.
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2 Kings 17:3
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.
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Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
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Hosea 10:5
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.
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Hosea 10:6
The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.
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