Hosea 7:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

They returne, but not to the most high: they are like a deceitfull bowe: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongues: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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  • Ps 78:57 : 57 But turned backe & delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They wil not dwel in the Lordes lande, but Ephraim will returne to Egypt, and they will eate vncleane things in Asshur.
  • Ps 73:9 : 9 They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
  • Ezek 23:32 : 32 Thus saith ye Lord God, Thou shalt drinke of thy sisters cup, deepe and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorne and had in derision, because it containeth much.
  • Ps 12:4 : 4 Which haue saide, With our tongue will we preuaile: our lippes are our owne: who is Lord ouer vs?
  • Hos 9:6 : 6 For loe, they are gone from destruction: but Egypt shal gather them vp, and Memphis shall burie them: the nettle shall possesse the pleasant places of their siluer, and the thorne shall be in their tabernacles.
  • Hos 11:7 : 7 And my people are bent to rebellion against me: though they called them to the most hie, yet none at all would exalt him.
  • Matt 12:36 : 36 But I say vnto you, that of euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue account thereof at the day of iudgement.
  • Luke 8:13 : 13 But they that are on the stones, are they which when they haue heard, receiue ye word with ioy: but they haue no rootes: which for a while beleeue, but in the time of tentation goe away.
  • Luke 11:24-26 : 24 When the vncleane spirite is gone out of a man, he walketh through drie places, seeking rest: and when he findeth none he saieth, I wil returne vnto mine house whence I came out. 25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. 26 Then goeth hee, and taketh to him seuen other spirites worse then himselfe: and they enter in, and dwel there: so the last state of that man is worse then the first.
  • Jas 3:5 : 5 Euen so the tongue is a litle member, and boasteth of great things: beholde, howe great a thing a litle fire kindleth.
  • 2 Pet 2:8 : 8 (For he being righteous, and dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soule from day to day with their vnlawfull deedes.)
  • Rev 13:5 : 5 And there was giuen vnto him a mouth, that spake great things and blasphemies, and power was giuen vnto him, to doe two and fourtie moneths.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among lions: I lie among the children of men, that are set on fire: whose teeth are speares and arrowes, & their tongue a sharpe sworde.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.
  • Isa 3:8 : 8 Doubtlesse Ierusalem is fallen, and Iudah is fallen downe, because their tongue & workes are against the Lord, to prouoke the eyes of his glory.
  • Jer 3:10 : 10 Neuerthelesse for all this, her rebellious sister Iudah hath not returned vnto mee with her whole heart, but fainedly, sayth the Lord.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then sayde they, Come, and let vs imagine some deuice against Ieremiah: for the Lawe shal not perish from the Priest, nor counsell from the wise, nor the worde from the Prophet: come, and let vs smite him with the tongue, and let vs not giue heede to any of his words.
  • Ezek 36:20 : 20 And when they entred vnto the heathen, whither they went, they polluted mine holy Name, when they sayd of them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone out of his land.
  • Hos 6:4 : 4 O Ephraim, what shall I doe vnto thee? O Iudah, how shall I intreate thee? for your goodnesse is as a morning cloude, and as the morning dewe it goeth away.
  • Hos 7:13 : 13 Wo vnto them: for they haue fled away from me: destruction shalbe vnto them, because they haue transgressed against me: though I haue redeemed them, yet they haue spoken lyes against me.
  • Hos 8:13-14 : 13 They sacrifice flesh for ye sacrifices of mine offerings, and eate it: but the Lorde accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes: they shall returne to Egypt. 14 For Israel hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth Temples, & Iudah hath increased strong cities: but I will sende a fire vpon his cities, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.

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    15Though I haue boud & strengthened their arme, yet doe they imagine mischiefe against me.

  • Ps 78:57
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    57But turned backe & delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3And they bende their tongues like their bowes for lyes: but they haue no courage for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceede from euill to worse, and they haue not knowen mee, sayth the Lord.

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    13The princes of Zoan are become fooles: the princes of Noph are deceiued, they haue deceiued Egypt, euen the corners of the tribes thereof.

    14The Lorde hath mingled among them the spirite of errours: and they haue caused Egypt to erre in euery worke thereof, as a drunken man erreth in his vomite.

  • Isa 30:2-3
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    2Which walke forth to goe downe into Egypt (and haue not asked at my mouth) to strengthen them selues with the strength of Pharaoh, and trust in the shadowe of Egypt.

    3But the strength of Pharaoh shalbe your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

  • Hos 11:5-7
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    5He shall no more returne into the lande of Egypt: but Asshur shalbe his King, because they refused to conuert.

    6And the sworde shall fall on his cities, and shall consume his barres, and deuoure them, because of their owne counsels.

    7And my people are bent to rebellion against me: though they called them to the most hie, yet none at all would exalt him.

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    6Thus sayth the Lord, They also that mainteine Egypt, shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come downe: from the towre of Seueneh shall they fall by the sword, sayth the Lord God.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3They make the King glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lies.

  • Ps 21:11-12
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    11For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.

    12Therefore shalt thou put them aparte, and the strings of thy bowe shalt thou make readie against their faces.

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    9The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.

  • Hos 7:10-11
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    10And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face, and they doe not returne to the Lorde their God, nor seeke him for all this.

    11Ephraim also is like a doue deceiued, without heart: they call to Egypt: they go to Asshur.

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    7For the Egyptians are vanitie, & they shall helpe in vaine. Therefore haue I cried vnto her, Their strength is to sit still.

  • Ps 37:14-15
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    14The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.

    15But their sword shall enter into their owne heart, and their bowes shalbe broken.

  • Ps 64:7-8
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    7But God will shoote an arrowe at them suddenly: their strokes shalbe at once.

    8They shall cause their owne tongue to fall vpon them: and whosoeuer shall see them, shall flee away.

  • Ezek 29:14
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    14And I wil bring againe the captiuitie of Egypt, and will cause them to returne into the land of Pathros, into the lande of their habitation, and they shalbe there a small kingdome.

  • Hos 8:13
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    13They sacrifice flesh for ye sacrifices of mine offerings, and eate it: but the Lorde accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes: they shall returne to Egypt.

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    8Egypt riseth vp like the flood, & his waters are mooued like the riuers, and he sayth, I wil goe vp, and will couer the earth: I wil destroy the citie with them that dwell therein.

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    21Also her hired men are in the middes of her like fat calues: they are also turned backe and fled away together: they could not stand, because the day of their destruction was come vpon them, and the time of their visitation.

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    10And they shall mocke the Kings, and the princes shalbe a skorne vnto them: they shall deride euery strong holde: for they shall gather dust, and take it.

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    6Loe, thou trustest in this broken staffe of reede on Egypt, whereupon if a man leane, it will goe into his hand, and pearce it: so is Pharaoh King of Egypt, vnto all that trust in him.

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    28Yet a small nomber that escape the sworde, shall returne out of the lande of Egypt into the lande of Iudah: and all the remnant of Iudah that are gone into the lande of Egypt to dwell there, shal know whose words shall stad, mine or theirs.

  • Jer 42:17-18
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    17And all the men that set their faces to enter into Egypt to dwell there, shall die by ye sword, by the famine and by the pestilence, and none of them shall remaine nor escape from the plague, that I will bring vpon them.

    18For thus saith the Lorde of hostes the God of Israel, As mine anger and my wrath hath bene powred foorth vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem: so shall my wrath be powred foorth vpon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt, and ye shall be a detestation, and an astonishment, and a curse and a reproche, & ye shall see this place no more.

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    13Wo vnto them: for they haue fled away from me: destruction shalbe vnto them, because they haue transgressed against me: though I haue redeemed them, yet they haue spoken lyes against me.

  • Ezek 30:11
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    11For he and his people with him, euen the terrible nations shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall drawe their swordes against Egypt, and fill the land with the slaine.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they brag in their talke, & swords are in their lips: for, Who, say they, doeth heare?

  • Ezek 32:12
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    12By the swordes of the mightie will I cause thy multitude to fall: they all shall be terrible nations, and they shal destroy the pompe of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shalbe consumed.

  • Ezek 20:8
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    8But they rebelled against me, & would not heare me: for none cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idoles of Egypt: then I thought to powre out mine indignation vpon them, & to accomplish my wrath against them in the mids of the land of Egypt.

  • Jer 22:27
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    27But to the lande, whereunto they desire to returne, they shall not returne thither.

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    3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirite: and when the Lorde shall stretch out his hand, the helper shall fall, and hee that is holpen shal fall, and they shall altogether faile.

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    16Hee made many to fall, and one fell vpon another: and they saide, Arise, let vs goe againe to our owne people, and to the land of our natiuitie from the sworde of the violent.

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    4Without me euery one shall fall among them that are bound, and they shall fall downe among the slayne: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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    7Thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the King of Iudah, that sent you vnto me to inquire of me, Behold, Pharaohs hoste, which is come forth to helpe you, shall returne to Egypt into their owne land.

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    8In that yee prouoke mee vnto wrath with the woorkes of your hands, burning incense vnto other Gods in the lande of Egypt whither yee be gone to dwell: that yee might bring destruction vnto your selues, and that ye might be a curse and a reproch among all nations of the earth.

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    21Lo, thou trustest now in this broken staffe of reede, to wit, on Egypt, on which if a man leane, it will goe into his hand, & pearce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt vnto all that trust on him.

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    12And I will take the remnant of Iudah, that haue set their faces to goe into the lande of Egypt there to dwell, and they shall all bee consumed and fall in the lande of Egypt: they shall euen bee consumed by the sworde and by the famine: they shall die from the least vnto the most, by the sworde, and by the famine, and they shall be a detestation and an astonishment and a curse and a reproche.

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    12For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride, euen for their periurie and lies, that they speake.

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    3Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.

  • Hos 7:7
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    7They are all hote as an ouen, and haue deuoured their iudges: all their Kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth vnto me.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.

  • Isa 22:3
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    3All thy princes shal flee together from the bowe: they shalbe bound: all that shall be found in thee, shall be bound together, which haue fled from farre.