Hosea 7:11

American Standard Version (1901)

And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.

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  • Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
  • Hos 11:11 : 11 They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will make them to dwell in their houses, saith Jehovah.
  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
  • Hos 8:8-9 : 8 Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, [like] a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
  • 2 Kgs 15:19 : 19 There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
  • 2 Kgs 17:3-4 : 3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute. 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy 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.
  • Prov 6:32 : 32 He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.
  • Prov 15:32 : 32 He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul; But he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding.
  • Prov 17:16 : 16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he hath no understanding?
  • Isa 30:1-6 : 1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, 2 that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes. 5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. 6 The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them] .
  • Isa 31:1-3 : 1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah! 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
  • Jer 2:18 : 18 And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? [
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
  • Ezek 23:4-8 : 4 And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah. 5 And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors, 6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. 7 And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself. 8 Neither hath she left her whoredoms since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her. [

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    8Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth.

    9For they are gone up to Assyria, [like] a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

    10Yea, though they hire among the nations, now will I gather them; and they begin to be diminished by reason of the burden of the king of princes.

    11Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been unto him for sinning.

  • Hos 7:8-10
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    8Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

    9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth [it] not.

    10And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet they have not returned unto Jehovah their God, nor sought him, for all this.

  • Hos 7:12-13
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    12When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

    13Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

  • Hos 12:1
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    1Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

  • Hos 11:11-12
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    11They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will make them to dwell in their houses, saith Jehovah.

    12Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the Holy One.

  • Hos 10:6
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    6It also shall be carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

  • Isa 30:2
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  • Hos 4:16-17
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    16For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

    17Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

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    2The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

    3Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

    4I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that lift up the yoke on their jaws; and I laid food before them.

    5They shall not return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian shall be their king, because they refused to return [to me] .

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    11Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after [man's] command.

    12Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

    13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

    14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.

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    11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

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    3They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

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    3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.

    4Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.

    5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.

    6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.

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    1Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!

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    7And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to [him that is] on high, none at all will exalt [him] .

  • Isa 7:17-18
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    17Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah--[ even] the king of Assyria.

    18And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

  • Hos 7:16
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    16They return, but not to [him that is] on high; they are like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

  • Isa 52:4
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    4For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause.

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    36Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

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    7For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.

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    9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

  • Hos 7:1
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    1When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers ravageth without.

  • Hos 12:14
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    14Ephraim hath provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore shall his blood be left upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

  • Deut 32:28
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    28For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.

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    17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

  • Isa 20:4
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    4so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

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    11And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loveth to tread out [the grain] ; but I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will set a rider on Ephraim; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.

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    9Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

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    9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

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    1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

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    7And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,