Hosea 7:16

King James Version 1611 (Original)

They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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  • Ps 78:57 : 57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
  • Ps 73:9 : 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
  • Ezek 23:32 : 32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
  • Ps 12:4 : 4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
  • Hos 9:6 : 6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
  • Hos 11:7 : 7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
  • Matt 12:36 : 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
  • Luke 8:13 : 13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
  • Luke 11:24-26 : 24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. 25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. 26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
  • Jas 3:5 : 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
  • 2 Pet 2:8 : 8 For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
  • Rev 13:5 : 5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
  • Isa 3:8 : 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
  • Jer 3:10 : 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
  • Ezek 36:20 : 20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
  • Hos 6:4 : 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
  • Hos 7:13 : 13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
  • Hos 8:13-14 : 13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. 14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 7:15
    78%

    15Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

  • Ps 78:57
    77%

    57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

  • Jer 9:3
    75%

    3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

  • Isa 19:13-14
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    74%

    13The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

    14The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

  • Isa 30:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

    3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

  • Hos 11:5-7
    3 verses
    73%

    5He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

    6And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

    7And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

  • Ezek 30:6
    72%

    6Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

  • Hos 7:3
    71%

    3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • Ps 21:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

    12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

  • Ps 78:9
    71%

    9The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

  • Hos 7:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

    11Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

  • Isa 30:7
    71%

    7For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

  • Ps 37:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

    15Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

  • Ps 64:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

    8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

  • Ezek 29:14
    70%

    14And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.

  • Hos 8:13
    70%

    13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

  • Isa 31:1
    70%

    1Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

  • Jer 46:8
    70%

    8Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

  • Jer 46:21
    69%

    21Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

  • Hab 1:10
    69%

    10And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

  • Isa 36:6
    69%

    6Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

  • Jer 44:28
    69%

    28Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

  • Jer 42:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

    18For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

  • Hos 7:13
    69%

    13Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

  • Ezek 30:11
    69%

    11He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

  • Ps 59:7
    69%

    7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

  • Ezek 32:12
    69%

    12By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

  • Ezek 20:8
    69%

    8But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

  • Jer 22:27
    69%

    27But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

  • Isa 31:3
    69%

    3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

  • Jer 46:16
    69%

    16He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

  • Isa 10:4
    69%

    4Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Jer 37:7
    69%

    7Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

  • Jer 44:8
    69%

    8In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

  • 2 Kgs 18:21
    69%

    21Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

  • Jer 44:12
    69%

    12And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

  • Ps 59:12
    69%

    12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Ps 64:3
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    3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

  • Hos 7:7
    68%

    7They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

  • Jer 9:8
    68%

    8Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

  • Isa 22:3
    68%

    3All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.