Hosea 7:9

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
  • 2 Kgs 13:3-7 : 3 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually. 4 And Jehoahaz besought Jehovah, and Jehovah hearkened unto him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them. 5 (And Jehovah gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as beforetime. 6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.) 7 For he left not to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
  • 2 Kgs 13:22 : 22 And Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
  • 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.
  • Prov 23:35 : 35 They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
  • Isa 1:7 : 7 Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
  • Isa 42:22-25 : 22 But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. 23 Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come? 24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not Jehovah? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto his law. 25 Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come] .

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  • 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.

  • 8Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

  • Job 14:21-22
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    21His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

    22But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him mourneth.

  • 29The glory of young men is their strength; And the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

  • Job 33:21-22
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    21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.

    22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

  • 25Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

  • Job 15:9-10
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    9What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

    10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

  • 9And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in stoutness of heart,

  • 18They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

  • Hos 5:5-6
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    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.

  • 2Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

  • Obad 1:6-7
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    6How are [the things of] Esau searched! how are his hidden treasures sought out!

    7All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee on thy way, even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy bread lay a snare under thee: there is no understanding in him.

  • 7therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

  • 4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon God?

  • Joel 1:6-7
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    6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

    7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

  • 7for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

  • 11He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it.

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

  • 29and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

  • 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.

  • 12And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

  • 13Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

  • 23He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • 10He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

  • 7Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

  • 13Yet the people have not turned unto him that smote them, neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts.

  • 9We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

  • 6My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting-place.

  • 31The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

  • 46The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.

  • 3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

  • 41All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.

  • 2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they are before my face.

  • 10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brethren, and his neighbors; and he is not.

  • 9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

  • 27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up.

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

  • 10Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [be] in the house of an alien,

  • 15Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

  • 50a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,

  • 13ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

  • 7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.

  • 7And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.

  • 4and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.