Verse 14

The elders and dignitaries are the head; the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

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  • Isa 19:15 : 15 There will be no work for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, can accomplish.
  • Rev 18:8 : 8 Because of this, her plagues will come in a single day: death, mourning, and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for the mighty Lord God is the one who judges her.
  • Rev 18:10 : 10 Standing far off because of the fear of her torment, they will say, 'Woe, woe to the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.'
  • Rev 18:17 : 17 For in one hour such great wealth has been destroyed!' Every ship captain, all who travel by ship, sailors, and those who earn their living from the sea stood far off,
  • 2 Kgs 17:6-9 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor River, and in the cities of Media. 7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods. 8 They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced. 9 The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree. 11 There, on all the high places, they burned incense as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the Lord to anger. 12 They served idols, about which the Lord had said to them, 'You shall not do this thing.' 13 Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and seers, saying, 'Turn back from your evil ways and keep My commandments and statutes according to the entire law I commanded your fathers to follow, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.' 14 But they would not listen. Instead, they hardened their necks like their fathers who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised His statutes, His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His warnings He gave them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They imitated the nations around them, though the Lord had commanded them not to do so. 16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God. They made for themselves two cast idols in the form of calves, made an Asherah pole, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire, practiced divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger. 18 So the Lord became very angry with Israel and removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left. 19 But even Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God. They followed the practices of Israel as the Israelites had done. 20 Therefore the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and handed them over to plunderers until He had cast them out of His presence.
  • Isa 3:2-3 : 2 The mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder. 3 The captain of fifty and the honored man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
  • Isa 10:17 : 17 The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; it will burn and devour his thorns and briars in a single day.
  • Isa 30:13 : 13 'this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.'
  • Hos 1:4 : 4 Then the LORD said to him, "Call him Jezreel, because in a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed at Jezreel, and I will bring an end to the kingdom of Israel."
  • Hos 1:6 : 6 Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Call her Lo-Ruhamah (Not Pitied), for I will no longer show compassion to the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them."
  • Hos 1:9 : 9 Then the LORD said, "Call him Lo-Ammi (Not My People), for you are not my people, and I am not your God."
  • Hos 4:5 : 5 You stumble day and night, and the prophet also stumbles with you. So I will destroy your mother.
  • Hos 5:12-14 : 12 I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like rot to the house of Judah. 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king for help. But he cannot heal you or cure your wound. 14 For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I will tear them to pieces and go away; I will carry them off, and no one will rescue them.
  • Hos 8:8 : 8 Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations like something worthless.
  • Hos 9:11-17 : 11 Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird—no birth, no pregnancy, no conception. 12 Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them! 13 Ephraim, as I have seen, was like Tyre, planted in a pleasant meadow. But Ephraim will lead their children out to be slaughtered. 14 Give them, LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry. 15 All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. Because of their evil deeds, I will drive them from My house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious. 16 Ephraim is struck down; their root is dried up; they will bear no fruit. Even if they give birth, I will kill their cherished offspring. 17 My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; they will become wanderers among the nations.
  • Hos 10:15 : 15 Thus it will happen to you, Bethel, because of your great wickedness. At dawn, the king of Israel will be completely cut off.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, like dew that vanishes early, like chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and like smoke escaping through a window.
  • Amos 2:14-16 : 14 Flight will perish from the swift, the strong will not retain their strength, and the warrior will not save his life. 15 The archer will not stand his ground, the swift-footed will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life. 16 Even the bravest of warriors will flee naked on that day,' declares the LORD.
  • Amos 3:12 : 12 This is what the Lord says: Just as a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so will the Israelites who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with only the corner of a bed or a piece of a couch.
  • Amos 5:2-3 : 2 She has fallen, never to rise again—the virgin Israel; she is deserted on her land, with no one to lift her up. 3 For this is what the Lord God says: The city that marches out a thousand will have a hundred left, and the one that goes out a hundred will have ten left for the house of Israel.
  • Amos 6:11 : 11 For the LORD has given the command: The great house will be shattered into pieces, and the small house into bits.
  • Amos 7:8-9 : 8 The Lord asked me, 'What do you see, Amos?' I replied, 'A plumb line.' Then the Lord said, 'I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel. I will no longer spare them.' 9 The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
  • Amos 7:17 : 17 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up with a measuring line, and you yourself will die in a polluted land. Israel will surely go into exile away from their homeland.'
  • Amos 9:1-9 : 1 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said, 'Strike the capitals so that the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people. Those who survive I will kill with the sword; not one of them will flee, not a single one will escape.' 2 'If they dig down to the depths of Sheol, from there My hand will take them. If they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.' 3 'If they hide themselves on the top of Mount Carmel, from there I will search them out and seize them. If they conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.' 4 'If they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.' 5 The Lord, the God of Hosts, touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn. The entire land rises like the Nile and then sinks like the Nile of Egypt. 6 He builds His chambers in the heavens and establishes His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth—the Lord is His name. 7 'Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O people of Israel?' declares the Lord. 'Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?' 8 'Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,' declares the Lord. 9 For behold, I am giving the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes a sieve, but not a single pebble shall fall to the ground.
  • Mic 1:6-8 : 6 I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a place for planting vineyards. I will pour her stones into the valley and lay bare her foundations. 7 All her carved images will be broken to pieces, all her earnings will be burned with fire, and all her idols I will destroy. Since she gathered them as wages of a prostitute, they will return to the wages of a prostitute. 8 Because of this, I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like jackals and mourn like ostriches.