Hosea 4:7

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Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.

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  • Hos 13:6 : 6 When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.
  • Ezra 9:7 : 7 From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.
  • Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets; 27 Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.
  • Hos 4:10 : 10 They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.
  • Hos 5:1 : 1 Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.
  • Hos 6:9 : 9 And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.
  • Hos 10:1 : 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.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
  • Hos 13:14 : 14 I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.
  • Hab 2:16 : 16 You are full of shame in place of glory: take your part in the drinking, and let your shame be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's right hand will come round to you and your glory will be covered with shame.

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  • Hos 4:8-10
    3 verses
    81%

    8 The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

    9 And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.

    10 They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

  • 6 Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.

  • Jer 5:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

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

  • Hos 7:12-14
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    74%

    12 When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.

    13 May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.

    14 And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.

  • 12 Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.

  • 9 They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.

  • 7 I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.

  • 15 Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.

  • Isa 3:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Hos 5:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • 7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

  • 50 They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.

  • 11 Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.

  • 40 And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.

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

  • 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.

  • 2 And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

  • 11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

  • 4 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.

  • 29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

  • 10 This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.

  • 18 Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

  • 24 But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • 16 And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.

  • 4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

  • 10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

  • 4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.

  • 24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

  • 20 And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.

  • 7 And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.

  • 26 As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;

  • 16 The face of the Lord has sent them in all directions; he will no longer take care of them: they had no respect for the priests, they gave no honour to the old men.

  • 39 So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.

  • 17 And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

  • 10 This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.

  • 6 You have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.

  • 13 For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

  • 22 For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

  • 27 Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

  • 19 And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.

  • 6 And she has gone against my orders by doing evil more than the nations, and against my rules more than the countries round her: for they have given up my orders, and as for my rules, they have not gone in the way of them.

  • 20 As for their beautiful ornament, they had put it on high, and had made the images of their disgusting and hated things in it: for this cause I have made it an unclean thing to them.