Hosea 7:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

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  • Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...
  • Hos 11:11 : 11 Shaking with fear like a bird, they will come out of Egypt, like a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will give them rest in their houses, says the Lord.
  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.
  • Hos 8:8-9 : 8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure. 9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.
  • 2 Kgs 15:19 : 19 In his day, Pul, the king of Assyria, came up against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that he might let him keep the kingdom.
  • 2 Kgs 17:3-4 : 3 Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings. 4 But Hoshea's broken faith became clear to the king of Assyria because he had sent representatives to So, king of Egypt, and did not send his offering to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: so the king of Assyria had him shut up in prison and put in chains.
  • Prov 6:32 : 32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
  • Prov 15:32 : 32 He who will not be controlled by training has no respect for his soul, but he who gives ear to teaching will get wisdom.
  • Prov 17:16 : 16 How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?
  • Isa 30:1-6 : 1 Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin: 2 Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt. 3 And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing. 4 For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes. 5 For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name. 6 The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.
  • Isa 31:1-3 : 1 Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord; 2 Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help. 3 For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.
  • Jer 2:18 : 18 And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.
  • Ezek 23:4-8 : 4 Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah. 5 And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours, 6 Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses. 7 And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her. 8 And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.

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  • Hos 8:8-11
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    8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

    9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.

    10 But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.

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

  • Hos 7:8-10
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    8 Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

    9 Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.

    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.

  • Hos 7:12-13
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    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.

  • Hos 12:1
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    1 The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...

  • Hos 11:11
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    11 Shaking with fear like a bird, they will come out of Egypt, like a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will give them rest in their houses, says the Lord.

  • Hos 10:6
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    6 And they will take it to Assyria and give it to the great king; shame will come on Ephraim, and Israel will be shamed because of its image.

  • Isa 30:2
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    2 Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

  • Hos 4:16-17
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    16 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.

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

  • Hos 11:2-5
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    2 When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.

    3 But I was guiding Ephraim's footsteps; I took them up in my arms, but they were not conscious that I was ready to make them well.

    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.

    5 He will go back to the land of Egypt and the Assyrian will be his king, because they would not come back to me.

  • Hos 5:11-14
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    11 Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.

    12 And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.

    13 When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.

    14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.

  • Hos 9:11
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    11 As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.

  • Hos 9:3
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    3 They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.

  • Hos 5:3-6
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    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.

  • Isa 31:1
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    1 Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;

  • Hos 11:7
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    7 My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.

  • Isa 7:17-18
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    17 The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, such a time of trouble as there has not been from the days of the separating of Ephraim from Judah; even the coming of the king of Assyria.

    18 And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.

  • Hos 7:16
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    16 They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.

  • Isa 52:4
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    4 For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.

  • Jer 2:36
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    36 Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.

  • Isa 30:7
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    7 For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.

  • Hos 5:9
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    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 7:1
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    1 When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.

  • Hos 12:14
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    14 And by a prophet the Lord made Israel come up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.

  • Deut 32:28
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    28 For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

  • Hos 9:17
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    17 My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.

  • Isa 20:4
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    4 So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

  • Jer 4:22
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    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.

  • 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.

  • Ezek 23:9
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    9 For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.

  • Ps 78:9
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    9 The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

  • Isa 18:1
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    1 Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia:

  • 2 Kgs 17:7
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    7 And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,