Hosea 12:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Ephraim feeds on the wind, and pursues the east wind; he daily increases lies and desolation, and they make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

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  • Jer 22:22 : 22 The wind shall eat up all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
  • Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
  • Hos 11:12 : 12 Ephraim surrounds me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God, and is faithful with the saints.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal. If it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
  • Ezek 17:10 : 10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
  • 2 Kgs 15:19 : 19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
  • 2 Kgs 17:4-6 : 4 But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and had brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. 5 Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  • Job 15:2 : 2 Should a wise man utter empty knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
  • Isa 30:6-7 : 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: through a land of trouble and anguish, from which come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

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    12Ephraim surrounds me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God, and is faithful with the saints.

  • Hos 7:10-11
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    10And the pride of Israel bears witness 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.

  • Hos 5:11-13
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    11Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly followed the commandment.

    12Therefore I will be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

    13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

  • Hos 5:9
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    9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

  • Hos 12:14
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    14Ephraim provoked Him to anger most bitterly; therefore He will leave his blood upon him, and his Lord shall repay his reproach to him.

  • Hos 12:2
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    2The LORD also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds will He recompense him.

  • Hos 7:8
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    8Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

  • Hos 12:7-8
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    7He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.

    8And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.

  • Hos 8:7-11
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    7For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal. If it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

    8Israel is swallowed up; now they shall be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which is no pleasure.

    9For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers.

    10Yes, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

    11Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him for sin.

  • Hos 13:15
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    15Though he is fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

  • Isa 30:2
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    2Who 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!

  • Hos 4:17
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    17Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.

  • Hos 10:6
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    6It shall also be carried to Assyria as a gift to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

  • Hos 13:12
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    12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hidden.

  • Hos 9:2-3
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    2The threshing floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.

    3They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

  • Isa 7:17
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    17The LORD shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father's house, days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

  • Hos 5:5
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    5And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

  • Hos 10:1
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    1Israel is an empty vine, he brings forth fruit for himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made beautiful images.

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    11And Ephraim is like a trained heifer that loves to thresh grain; but I put a yoke on her fair neck: I will make Ephraim ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

  • Hos 7:1
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    1When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was exposed, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the gang of robbers plunders outside.

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    1When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

  • Isa 19:23
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    23In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

  • Jer 22:22
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    22The wind shall eat up all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

  • Isa 11:13
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    13The envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.

  • Zech 10:11
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    11And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and strike the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up. And the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.

  • Hos 5:3
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    3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me: for now, O Ephraim, you commit whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

  • Hos 9:16
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    16Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

  • Isa 31:1
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    1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the LORD!

  • Isa 7:5
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    5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have devised evil against you, saying,

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    21Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together will be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Hos 6:10
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    10I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

  • Hos 11:5-6
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    5He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

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

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    7All the men of your confederacy have driven you to the border; the men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have laid a trap under you. There is no understanding in him.

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    1Woe to the land with wings of shadow, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

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    2And it was reported to the house of David, saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind.

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    6Indeed, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans on, it will pierce his hand. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

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    13Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

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    6Therefore You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves with the children of strangers.