Hosea 9:16

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Ephraim is struck down; their root is dried up; they will bear no fruit. Even if they give birth, I will kill their cherished offspring.

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  • Hos 9:11-13 : 11 Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird—no birth, no pregnancy, no conception. 12 Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them! 13 Ephraim, as I have seen, was like Tyre, planted in a pleasant meadow. But Ephraim will lead their children out to be slaughtered.
  • Ezek 24:21 : 21 Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Behold, I am about to profane my sanctuary—the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your soul. Your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.’
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to follow human commands.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it will yield no flour. Even if it does produce, strangers will swallow it up.
  • Job 18:16 : 16 His roots below will dry up, and his branches above will wither.
  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble and as dry grass sinks in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 40:24 : 24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

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  • Hos 9:9-15
    7 verses
    82%

    9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

    10Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your ancestors. But they went to Baal Peor, consecrated themselves to shame, and became as detestable as the thing they loved.

    11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird—no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.

    12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!

    13Ephraim, as I have seen, was like Tyre, planted in a pleasant meadow. But Ephraim will lead their children out to be slaughtered.

    14Give them, LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.

    15All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. Because of their evil deeds, I will drive them from My house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

  • Hos 9:17
    81%

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

  • Hos 5:9
    74%

    9Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of punishment. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known what is certain.

  • Jer 8:13
    73%

    13I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, no figs on the tree, and even the leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them.

  • Jer 15:7
    73%

    7I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land; I have bereaved and destroyed My people, yet they have not turned from their ways.

  • Jer 31:20
    72%

    20Is Ephraim my dear son, my precious child? For as often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore, my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.

  • Hos 13:15
    72%

    15Even though he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind of the LORD, rising from the wilderness. His spring will dry up, his fountain will be parched. It will plunder his treasury of every precious thing.

  • Jer 7:15
    72%

    15And I will cast you out of my presence, just as I cast out all your brothers, the entire offspring of Ephraim.

  • Amos 9:4
    72%

    4'If they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.'

  • Jer 9:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15'I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have finished them off.'

    16This is what the Lord of Hosts says: 'Consider and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilled wailing women to arrive.'

  • Isa 13:18
    71%

    18Their bows will strike down the young men; they will show no mercy to the offspring of the womb, nor will they pity children.

  • Ps 21:10
    71%

    10You will make them like a fiery furnace in the time of Your presence; the LORD will swallow them in His anger, and fire will consume them.

  • 1 Kgs 14:15
    71%

    15The LORD will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they made Asherah poles, angering the LORD.

  • Hos 5:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to follow human commands.

    12I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like rot to the house of Judah.

  • Isa 27:11
    71%

    11When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.

  • Hos 2:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3Say to your brothers, 'My people,' and to your sisters, 'She has received mercy.'

    4Plead with your mother, plead! For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her adulteries from before her face and her unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

  • Jer 31:9
    71%

    9They will come with weeping, and with pleas for mercy, I will lead them. I will guide them to streams of water on a straight path where they will not stumble, for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

  • Jer 15:9
    71%

    9The mother of seven has grown weak and faint; she has breathed her last. Her sun has set while it was still day; she has been disgraced and humiliated. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword in the presence of their enemies,' declares the LORD.

  • Hos 11:8
    71%

    8How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within Me; My compassion grows warm and tender.

  • Hos 12:14
    70%

    14But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet, he was preserved.

  • Hos 10:15
    70%

    15Thus it will happen to you, Bethel, because of your great wickedness. At dawn, the king of Israel will be completely cut off.

  • Ezek 19:12
    70%

    12But it was uprooted in fury, cast to the ground. The east wind dried out its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and dried up, consumed by fire.

  • Jer 6:19
    70%

    19Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to My words and have rejected My law.

  • Hos 8:8
    70%

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

  • Jer 44:7
    70%

    7Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves, cutting off from Judah man, woman, child, and infant, leaving yourselves without any remnant?

  • Jer 18:21
    70%

    21So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.

  • Ezek 17:9
    70%

    9Say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and its fruit stripped so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a great effort or many people to pull it out by its roots.

  • Ezek 19:14
    70%

    14Fire went out from its branch, consuming its fruit. There was no strong rod left in it, no scepter fit to rule. This is a lamentation, and it has become a lamentation.

  • Hos 13:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12The guilt of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored away.

    13The pains of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; when it is time, he does not come to the opening of the womb.

  • Hos 10:10
    70%

    10When I desire, I will discipline them, and nations will be gathered against them to bind them for their double iniquities.

  • Hos 11:6
    70%

    6A sword will whirl through their cities; it will destroy their gates and consume them because of their plans.

  • Hos 14:8
    70%

    8Those who live in his shade will return; they will flourish like grain, blossom like the vine, and their fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.

  • Isa 18:5
    70%

    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, the branches will be cut with pruning knives, and the spreading branches will be removed and discarded.

  • Jer 16:3
    70%

    3For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters born in this place, as well as their mothers who bear them and their fathers who father them in this land:

  • Hos 9:2
    70%

    2The threshing floor and the winepress will not provide for them, and the new wine will fail them.

  • Zech 10:7
    70%

    7Ephraim will be like mighty warriors, and their hearts will rejoice as if from wine. Their children will see it and be happy; their hearts will exult in the LORD.

  • Amos 9:15
    70%

    15I will plant them upon their land, and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them, says the Lord your God.

  • Hos 10:1
    70%

    1Israel 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.