Hosea 4:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.

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  • Lev 26:33 : 33 And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.
  • 1 Sam 15:11 : 11 It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.
  • Isa 5:17 : 17 Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.
  • Isa 7:21-25 : 21 And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep; 22 And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land. 23 And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns. 24 Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns. 25 And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.
  • Isa 22:18 : 18 Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!
  • Jer 3:6 : 6 And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.
  • Jer 3:8 : 8 And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.
  • Jer 3:11 : 11 And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
  • Jer 7:24 : 24 But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.
  • Jer 8:5 : 5 Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.
  • Jer 14:7 : 7 Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.
  • Hos 11:7 : 7 My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 50:19
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    19 And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

  • Hos 4:17
    76%

    17 Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.

  • Hos 4:15
    76%

    15 Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.

  • Hos 10:11
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    11 And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.

  • Hos 14:1
    74%

    1 Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.

  • Hos 5:3-6
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    74%

    3 I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.

    4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

    5 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.

    6 They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.

  • Jer 3:11
    74%

    11 And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.

  • Isa 5:17
    73%

    17 Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

  • Zech 11:4
    73%

    4 This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;

  • Isa 1:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

    4 O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

  • Jer 3:6
    72%

    6 And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

  • Hos 14:4
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    4 Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.

  • Ezek 34:14-15
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    72%

    14 I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel.

    15 I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord.

  • Zech 11:16
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    16 For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.

  • Mic 7:14
    71%

    14 Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.

  • Jer 50:17
    71%

    17 Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

  • Jer 4:1
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    1 If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.

  • Jer 8:5
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    5 Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

  • Jer 31:10
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    10 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O you nations, and give news of it in the sea-lands far away, and say, He who has sent Israel wandering will get him together and will keep him as a keeper does his flock.

  • Mic 2:12
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    12 I will certainly make all of you, O Jacob, come together; I will get together the rest of Israel; I will put them together like the sheep in their circle: like a flock in their green field; they will be full of the noise of men.

  • Jer 3:22
    71%

    22 Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

  • Jer 50:6
    71%

    6 My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.

  • Hos 11:7
    71%

    7 My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.

  • Jer 2:3
    70%

    3 Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.

  • Hos 7:10
    70%

    10 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.

  • Num 32:4
    70%

    4 The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

  • Ezek 34:19
    70%

    19 And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has been stamped on by your feet, and their drink the water which has been made dirty by your feet.

  • Hos 13:6
    70%

    6 When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.

  • Jer 4:17
    70%

    17 Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

  • Jer 31:18
    70%

    18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

  • Hos 11:4
    70%

    4 I made them come after me with the cords of a man, with the bands of love; I was to them as one who took the yoke from off their mouths, putting meat before them.

  • Hos 10:1
    70%

    1 Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.

  • Amos 4:3
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    3 And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20 Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 34:17
    70%

    17 And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats.

  • Jer 5:6
    70%

    6 And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

  • Jer 3:14
    70%

    14 Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;

  • Hos 8:5
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    5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?

  • Jer 25:36
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    36 A sound of the cry of the keepers of sheep, and the bitter crying of the chiefs of the flock! for the Lord has made waste their green fields.

  • Ezek 34:7
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    7 For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord:

  • Jer 3:8
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    8 And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.

  • Ps 78:71
    70%

    71 From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.

  • Jer 2:20
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    20 For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman

  • Jer 2:14
    69%

    14 Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?