Hosea 5:14-15

Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

14 For I will be t like a lion to u Ephraim,
and like a young lion to the house of u Judah.
v I, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

15 w I will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and x in their distress earnestly seek me.

  1. Cross References
    Hosea 13:7
    So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
  2. Cross References
    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.
  3. Cross References
    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.
  4. Cross References
    Micah 5:8
    And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 29:10 - 12
    For thus says the Lord : When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.
    Ezekiel 6:9
    Then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
    Leviticus 26:40 - 42
    But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me.
  6. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:16
    O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
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