Hosea 8:3

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Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.

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  • Lev 26:36 : 36 As for those of you who survive, I will bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as though running from a sword, though no one pursues them.
  • Deut 28:25 : 25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, thinking his iniquity will not be discovered or hated.
  • Ps 81:10-11 : 10 You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not bow down to an alien god. 11 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.
  • Lam 3:66 : 66 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
  • Lam 4:19 : 19 Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the sky; they chased us over the mountains and lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
  • Amos 1:11 : 11 Thus says the LORD: 'For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and suppressed compassion. His anger tore continually, and his wrath remained forever.'
  • 1 Tim 5:12 : 12 and they bring judgment on themselves for breaking their first pledge.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 8:2
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    2 They cry out to me, 'My God, we know you, O Israel!'

  • Hos 8:4-6
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    4 They set up kings, but not by me; they appointed leaders, but I did not know of it. With their silver and gold, they made idols for themselves, to their own destruction.

    5 Your calf idol is rejected, Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be unable to attain innocence?

    6 This calf comes from Israel! A craftsman made it; it is not God. It will be shattered into pieces—this calf of Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 17:20
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    20 Therefore the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and handed them over to plunderers until He had cast them out of His presence.

  • Hos 8:8
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    8 Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations like something worthless.

  • Hos 10:1-2
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    74%

    1 Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more abundant his fruit, the more altars he built. The richer his land, the more he adorned sacred pillars.

    2 Their hearts are divided; now they must bear their guilt. He will tear down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.

  • Hos 9:17
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    17 My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; they will become wanderers among the nations.

  • Hos 13:9
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    9 It has destroyed you, Israel, because you are against me, against your helper.

  • Isa 31:6
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    6 Return to the One you have so deeply rebelled against, O sons of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
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    7 then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. Israel will then become a proverb and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • Jer 2:3
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    3 Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who tried to devour it were held guilty; disaster came upon them,’ declares the LORD.

  • Lam 2:7
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    7 The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They raised their voices in the house of the LORD as on a day of appointed festival.

  • Josh 7:11-12
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    11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have lied, and they have put them with their own possessions.

    12 That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies; they turn their backs and run because they have been made liable to destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is devoted to destruction.

  • Hos 5:5-6
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    5 The pride of Israel testifies against him; Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their guilt, and Judah also will stumble with them.

    6 With their flocks and herds they will go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

  • Isa 1:4
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    4 Woe to a sinful nation, a people loaded down with guilt, offspring of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have abandoned the LORD, spurned the Holy One of Israel, and turned their backs on Him.

  • Nah 2:2
    72%

    2 The scatterer has come against your face. Guard the fortress, watch the road, strengthen your loins, muster all your strength!

  • 1 Sam 8:8
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    8 Just as they have done to me from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day—forsaking me and serving other gods—so they are also doing to you.

  • Isa 17:9
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    9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the wooded heights and hilltops that were abandoned because of the Israelites, and there will be desolation.

  • Hos 8:14
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    14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many cities. But I will send fire on their cities, and it will devour their strongholds.

  • Hos 7:13
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    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.

  • Judg 8:34
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    34 The Israelites did not remember the Lord their God, who had rescued them from the hand of all their enemies on every side.

  • Exod 32:8
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    8 They have turned aside quickly from the way I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'

  • 2 Kgs 21:14
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    14 I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hands of their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil for all their enemies,

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
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    8 They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

  • Hos 10:9
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    9 From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel, and there they have remained. Will not war overtake them in Gibeah because of their wickedness?

  • Jer 11:10
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    10 They have turned back to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,' declares the LORD.

  • Ps 78:59
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    59 When God heard this, He became furious and greatly rejected Israel.

  • Jer 9:13
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    13 Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

  • Jer 2:11
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    11 Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glory for worthless idols.

  • Jer 3:11
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    11 The LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah."

  • Lam 2:3
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    3 In his fierce anger, he has cut off every horn of Israel. He has withdrawn his right hand from the presence of the enemy and burned in Jacob like a blazing fire that engulfs everything around it.

  • Hos 5:3
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    3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the harlot; Israel is defiled.

  • Ps 83:4
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    4 They devise cunning plans against your people and conspire together against your treasured ones.

  • Ps 44:9
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    9 In God we make our boast all day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.

  • Hos 14:1
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    1 Samaria will be found guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.

  • Isa 30:11-12
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    11 'Leave the way, turn aside from the path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!'

    12 Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: 'Because you have rejected this message and relied on oppression and deceit, leaning on them for support—'

  • Jer 15:6
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    6 'You have rejected Me,' declares the LORD. 'You keep going backward. So I have stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you; I am tired of relenting.'

  • Jer 51:5
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    5 For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the Lord of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Lam 2:5
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    5 The Lord appeared like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed all her palaces, destroyed her strongholds, and filled the daughter of Judah with mourning and lamentation.

  • Jer 14:10
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    10 This is what the LORD says about this people: They love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their guilt and punish their sins.

  • Jer 5:11
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    11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been thoroughly unfaithful to Me, declares the Lord.

  • Hos 7:10
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    10 Israel’s arrogance testifies against him, yet they do not return to the LORD their God or seek him in all this.

  • Zeph 3:15
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    15 The LORD has taken away your judgments; He has turned aside your enemy. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you will never again fear disaster.

  • Judg 3:7
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    7 The Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.