Hosea 13:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

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  • Hos 6:4 : 4 O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
  • Ps 68:2 : 2 Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.
  • Dan 2:35 : 35 Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth.
  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems. 16 You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ps 83:12-17 : 12 Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God. 13 O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind. 14 As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains, 15 So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm. 16 Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord. 17 Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;

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    18How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • Jer 13:24
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    24So I will send them in all directions, as dry grass is taken away by the wind of the waste land.

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    11Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

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  • Isa 5:24
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    24For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Ps 83:13-14
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    13O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.

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  • Hos 6:4
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    4O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.

  • Isa 47:14
    74%

    14Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

  • Jer 5:13
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    13And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.

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    13But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.

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    5And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

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    10For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

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    73%

    15Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.

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    5Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.

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    24They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

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    16You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

  • Hos 8:7
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    26This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

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    4The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

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    6Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

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    2Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.

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    17Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

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    7And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.