Hosea 5:2

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

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  • Hos 9:15 : 15 All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.
  • Isa 29:15 : 15 Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?
  • 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.
  • Ps 64:3-6 : 3 Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words; 4 So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen. 5 They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it, 6 Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.
  • Ps 140:1-5 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, take me out of the power of the evil man; keep me safe from the violent man: 2 For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war. 3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.) 4 O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall. 5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
  • Amos 4:6-9 : 6 But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. 7 And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste. 8 So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. 9 I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. 10 I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. 11 And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. 12 So this is what I will do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, be ready for a meeting with your God, O Israel.
  • Zeph 3:1-2 : 1 Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town! 2 She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.
  • Luke 22:2-5 : 2 And the chief priests and the scribes were looking for a chance to put him to death, but they went in fear of the people. 3 And Satan came into Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve. 4 And he went away and had a discussion with the chief priests and the rulers, about how he might give him up to them. 5 And they were glad, and undertook to give him money.
  • Acts 23:12-15 : 12 And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death. 13 And more than forty of them took this oath. 14 And they came to the chief priests and the rulers and said, We have taken a great oath to take no food till we have put Paul to death 15 So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
  • Jer 6:28 : 28 All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.
  • Jer 11:18-19 : 18 And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings. 19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.
  • Jer 25:3-7 : 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, even till this day, for twenty-three years, the word of the Lord has been coming to me, and I have given it to you, getting up early and talking to you; but you have not given ear. 4 And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you have not given attention and your ear has not been open to give hearing; 5 Saying, Come back now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and keep your place in the land which the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from times long past even for ever: 6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves. 7 But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
  • Hos 6:5 : 5 So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 5:1
    77%

    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 5:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Jer 6:28
    76%

    28 All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

  • Jer 5:23
    74%

    23 But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.

  • Jer 5:5-7
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

    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.

  • Jer 5:11
    74%

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

  • Hos 7:12-14
    3 verses
    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.

  • Jer 4:17
    74%

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

  • Hos 5:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Jer 2:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29 Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

    30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

  • Hos 6:5
    72%

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

  • Isa 1:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

    5 Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

  • Hos 9:15
    72%

    15 All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.

  • Neh 9:26
    72%

    26 But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

  • Isa 31:6
    72%

    6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

  • Hos 4:2
    72%

    2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Jer 1:16
    72%

    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.

  • Mic 3:9
    72%

    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.

  • Jer 15:6
    72%

    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.

  • Hos 7:2
    71%

    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.

  • Hos 10:10
    71%

    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.

  • Mic 1:5
    71%

    5 All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

  • Hos 9:9
    71%

    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.

  • Jer 2:19
    71%

    19 The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

  • Amos 2:3
    71%

    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.

  • Ezek 2:5
    71%

    5 And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give ear (for they are an uncontrolled people), will see that there has been a prophet among them.

  • Hos 7:7
    71%

    7 They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.

  • 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.

  • Zeph 3:4
    71%

    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.

  • Hos 6:7
    71%

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

  • Ps 5:10
    71%

    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.

  • Hos 6:10
    71%

    10 In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;

  • Jer 3:20
    71%

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

  • Jer 11:10
    71%

    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.

  • Jer 9:2
    71%

    2 If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

  • Jer 34:18
    70%

    18 And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,

  • Nah 1:12
    70%

    12 This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.

  • Mic 6:16
    70%

    16 For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

  • Isa 1:20
    70%

    20 But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

  • Isa 5:25
    70%

    25 For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.

  • Zeph 3:7
    70%

    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.