Hosea 7:3

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They please the king with their evil and the princes with their lies.

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  • Mic 7:3 : 3 Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.
  • Rom 1:32 : 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things but also approve of those who practice them.
  • Jer 28:1-4 : 1 In the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying: 2 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.' 3 Within two years, I will bring back to this place all the articles of the LORD's house that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took from here and carried to Babylon. 4 I will also bring back to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, along with all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon,' declares the LORD, 'for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'
  • Jer 37:19 : 19 Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land'?
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to follow human commands.
  • Hos 7:5 : 5 On the day of our king, the princes became inflamed with wine, and the king stretched out his hand to mockers.
  • Amos 7:10-13 : 10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, 'Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.' 11 For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their own land.' 12 Then Amaziah said to Amos, 'Seer, go and flee to the land of Judah; there you can earn your bread and prophesy there.' 13 'But never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.'
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 You have followed the statutes of Omri and all the practices of the house of Ahab; you have walked in their counsels. Therefore, I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of scorn; you will bear the reproach of My people.
  • 1 Kgs 22:6 : 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them, 'Should I go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or not?' They said, 'Go up, and the Lord will give it into the king’s hands.'
  • 1 Kgs 22:13 : 13 The messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, 'Behold, all the prophets are declaring good things to the king with one voice. Please let your word agree with theirs and say something favorable.'
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. And My people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?
  • Jer 9:2 : 2 They bend their tongues like a bow to shoot lies, not for truth do they grow strong in the land; they go from one evil to another, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
  • 1 John 4:5 : 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

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  • 3 Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.

  • Hos 7:4-7
    4 verses
    78%

    4 They are all adulterers, burning like an oven heated by the baker, who pauses from stirring the dough until it is leavened.

    5 On the day of our king, the princes became inflamed with wine, and the king stretched out his hand to mockers.

    6 Their hearts are like an oven as they plot; all night their anger smolders, in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

    7 All of them are hot like an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none call on me.

  • 2 But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.

  • 14 from those who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of wickedness.

  • 3 Beware of your neighbor; do not trust even a brother. Every brother utterly deceives, and every friend spreads slander.

  • 4 How long will you assault a man? Would you all throw him down—like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

  • 9 The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom, they openly declare their sin; they do not try to conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • 12 If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials become wicked.

  • 20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy is for those who counsel peace.

  • 5 You live in the midst of deceit, and because of deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9 LORD, lead me in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way straight before me.

    10 For there is no truth in their mouths; their hearts are filled with destruction. Their throats are open graves; they flatter with their tongues.

  • 12 Her rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

  • 2 Help, LORD, for the godly have vanished; the faithful have disappeared from among humanity.

  • 35 They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness; their womb prepares deceit.

  • 2 For their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk of trouble.

  • 3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak peace to their neighbors but harbor evil in their hearts.

  • 22 Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are His delight.

  • 22 Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies when I had not caused them grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,

  • 3 For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the greedy man curses and spurns the Lord.

  • 36 But they deceived Him with their mouths and lied to Him with their tongues.

  • Ps 73:7-8
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    7 Their eyes bulge from fatness; their imaginations overflow with malice.

    8 They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance, they threaten oppression.

  • 7 Eloquent speech is not fitting for a fool; how much less deceitful speech for a ruler!

  • 3 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, thinking his iniquity will not be discovered or hated.

  • 7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to act justly.

  • Hos 7:15-16
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    15 I disciplined them and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.

    16 They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword because of their insolent words. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

  • 8 But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.

  • 13 For from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for unjust gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

  • 13 Woe to them because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them, but they speak lies about me.

  • 14 With kings and counselors of the earth who built ruins for themselves.

  • 5 They shoot from hiding places at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear.

  • 8 They feed on the sins of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

  • 4 Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; her priests have profaned the sanctuary and have done violence to the law.

  • 27 Both kings, with their hearts set on evil, will sit at the same table and lie to each other, but their plans will not succeed, for the end will still come at the appointed time.

  • Jer 5:27-28
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    27 Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Because of this, they have become great and rich.

    28 They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.

  • 4 A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

  • 20 For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

  • 15 Now we call the proud blessed, for those who do evil prosper, and those who test God escape.'

  • 3 Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all day long.

  • 7 His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and iniquity.

  • 13 "Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The venom of vipers is under their lips."

  • 35 Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying Your abundant goodness and the spacious, fertile land You gave them, they did not serve You or turn from their evil deeds.

  • 1 Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.

  • 28 All of them are stubborn rebels, going about with slander. They are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.