Hosea 5:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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Referenced Verses

Isa 51:8 : 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.
Job 13:28 : 28 Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth - eaten.
Prov 12:4 : 4 A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Isa 50:9 : 9 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
Jonah 4:7 : 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
Mark 9:43-48 : 43 And if thy hand cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed, rather than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire. 45 And if thy foot cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life halt, rather than having thy two feet to be cast into hell. 47 And if thine eye cause thee to stumble, cast it out: it is good for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell; 48 where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Hos 5:13-14
2 verses
78%
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.
Job 13:28
77%
28Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth - eaten.
Hos 5:9-11
3 verses
76%
9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
10The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
11Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after [man's] command.
Hos 11:12
73%
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 5:5
72%
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.
Jer 5:11
72%
11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.
Hos 6:4-5
2 verses
72%
4O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early away.
5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are [as] the light that goeth forth.
Isa 5:24
71%
24Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Mic 1:8-9
2 verses
71%
8For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
9For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Hos 9:16
71%
16Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
Jer 13:9
71%
9Thus saith Jehovah, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Amos 2:5
71%
5but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Hos 5:3
71%
3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.
Jer 15:6
70%
6Thou hast rejected me, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against thee, and destroyed thee; I am weary with repenting.
Jer 30:12
70%
12For thus saith Jehovah, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound grievous.
Mic 6:13
70%
13Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.
Nah 3:15
70%
15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.
Amos 5:1
70%
1Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
Hos 7:1
70%
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.
Jer 9:15
70%
15therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Hos 6:10
70%
10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Hos 12:1
70%
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.
Isa 1:5
69%
5Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Jer 29:17
69%
17thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.
Joel 1:17
69%
17The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.
Jer 7:15
69%
15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
Amos 9:8
69%
8Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; save that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.
Jer 8:13
69%
13I will utterly consume them, saith Jehovah: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.
Jer 22:6
69%
6For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities which are not inhabited.
Hos 10:5
69%
5The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
Job 4:19
69%
19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
Amos 3:15
69%
15And I will smite the winter - house with the summer - house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith Jehovah.
Isa 7:17
69%
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.
Hos 13:8
69%
8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.
Ezek 15:6
69%
6Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As the vine - tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Hos 9:11
69%
11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
Jer 12:14
69%
14Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbors, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
Isa 11:13
69%
13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
Jer 13:11
69%
11For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith Jehovah; that they may be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
Jer 5:20
69%
20Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
Amos 4:12
69%
12Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
Hos 11:8
69%
8How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I cast thee off, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboiim? my heart is turned within me, my compassions are kindled together.
Hos 9:9
69%
9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Hos 7:12
69%
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.
Mic 3:12
69%
12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.