Hosea 8:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Jer 2:24 : 24 An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.
  • 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 7:11 : 11 And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
  • Ezek 16:33-34 : 33 They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love. 34 And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make love to you: and because you give payment and no payment is given to you, in this you are different from them.
  • Ezek 23:5-9 : 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. 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.
  • Hos 2:5-7 : 5 For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine. 6 For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way. 7 And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.
  • Hos 2:10 : 10 And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...
  • 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.
  • Job 39:5-8 : 5 Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you? 6 They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body. 7 Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again. 8 Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
  • Isa 30:6 : 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.

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  • Hos 8:10-11
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    10But 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.

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

  • Hos 7:10-11
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    10And 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.

    11And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

  • Hos 4:16-18
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    16For 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Ezek 23:5
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    5And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,

  • Ezek 23:12
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    12She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired.

  • Jer 22:20
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    20Go up to Lebanon and give a cry; let your voice be loud in Bashan, crying out from Abarim; for all your lovers have come to destruction

  • Jer 2:24-25
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    24An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

    25Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.

  • Hos 5:3-4
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    3I 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.

    4Their 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.

  • Hos 5:6
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    6They 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.

  • Hos 11:4-5
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    4I 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.

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

  • Ezek 23:20
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    20And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.

  • Hos 5:13-14
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    13When 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.

    14For 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 10:6
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    6And 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.

  • Hos 10:11
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    11And 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 16:28
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    28And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting like a loose woman with them, and still you had not enough.

  • Hos 9:9-11
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    9They 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.

    10I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.

    11As 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
    68%

    3They 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 9:1
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    1Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.

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

  • Hos 2:5
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    5For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

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

  • Job 39:5
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    5Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

  • Ezek 23:7
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    7And 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.

  • Jer 5:8
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    8They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.

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

  • Job 24:5
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    5Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

  • Isa 52:4
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    4For 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.

  • Isa 2:6
    66%

    6For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

  • Isa 19:23
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    23In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt will come into Assyria; and the Egyptians will give worship to the Lord together with the Assyrians.

  • Hos 6:10
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    10In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;

  • Hos 13:6
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    6When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.

  • Hos 5:9
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    9Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.

  • Hos 9:6
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    6For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.

  • Isa 7:17
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    17The 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.

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

  • Isa 31:1
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    1Cursed 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 8:3
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    3Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.