Hosea 5:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:14 : 14 Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • Deut 27:17 : 17 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry. 4 The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.
  • Ps 32:6 : 6 For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.
  • Ps 88:17 : 17 They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.
  • Prov 17:14 : 14 The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.
  • Prov 22:28 : 28 Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.
  • Ezek 7:8 : 8 Now, in a little time, I will let loose my passion on you, and give full effect to my wrath against you, judging you for your ways, and sending punishment on you for all your disgusting works.
  • Matt 7:27 : 27 And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.
  • Luke 6:49 : 49 But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.
  • 2 Kgs 16:7-9 : 7 So Ahaz sent representatives to Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come to my help against the kings of Aram and Israel who have taken up arms against me. 8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold which were in the house of the Lord and in the king's store-house, and sent them as an offering to the king of Assyria. 9 And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.
  • 2 Chr 28:16-22 : 16 At that time King Ahaz sent for help to the king of Assyria. 17 For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners. 18 And the Philistines, forcing their way into the towns of the lowlands and the south of Judah, had taken Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth and Soco, with their daughter-towns, as well as Timnah and Gimzo and their daughter-towns, and were living there. 19 For the Lord made Judah low, because of Ahaz, king of Israel; for he had given up all self-control in Judah, sinning greatly against the Lord. 20 Then Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came to him, but was a cause of trouble and not of strength to him. 21 For Ahaz took a part of the wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the house of the king and of the great men, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it was no help to him. 22 And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.

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  • 3 And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.

  • 6 Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.

  • 11 Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.

  • 5 And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.

  • 9 Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.

  • Hos 5:1-2
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    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.

    2 They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.

  • 7 As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

  • Jer 5:9-11
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    9 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

    10 Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

    11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

  • 9 The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • 5 So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

  • 31 And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.

  • 31 And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.

  • Mic 3:9-10
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    9 Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.

    10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

  • 25 Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the works of their hands; so my wrath is let loose on this place and will not be put out.

  • 24 But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

  • 18 Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;

  • 40 He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

  • 6 See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.

  • 7 You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

  • 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to make me angry, they and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.

  • 17 And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.

  • Zeph 3:3-4
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    3 Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

    4 Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

  • 8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

  • 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.

  • 11 For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.

  • 27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.

  • Isa 10:1-2
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    1 Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

    2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • 12 Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

  • 7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off, like mist on the water.

  • 22 Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

  • 15 And their king will be made prisoner, he and his captains together, says the Lord.

  • 25 Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.

  • 10 I will come and give them punishment; and the peoples will come together against them when I give them the reward of their two sins.

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

  • 13 This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

  • 18 So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images:

  • 10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • 13 For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

  • 3 For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.

  • 5 I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

  • 37 And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • 11 I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

  • 9 And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.

  • 10 For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.