Hosea 4:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn calf: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large space.

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  • Lev 26:33 : 33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
  • 1 Sam 15:11 : 11 It grieves Me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried to the LORD all night.
  • Isa 5:17 : 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
  • Isa 7:21-25 : 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep; 22 And it shall come to pass, because of the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall everyone eat who is left in the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come there; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25 And on all hills that shall be dug with the mattock, there shall not come the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
  • Isa 22:18 : 18 He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country: there you shall die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord's house.
  • Jer 3:6 : 6 The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
  • Jer 3:8 : 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.
  • Jer 3:11 : 11 And the LORD said to me, Backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings have increased.
  • Jer 7:24 : 24 But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
  • Jer 8:5 : 5 Why then has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.
  • Jer 14:7 : 7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.
  • Hos 11:7 : 7 And my people are determined to backslide from me; though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him.
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 50:19
    76%

    19And I will bring Israel again to his dwelling place, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.

  • Hos 4:17
    76%

    17Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.

  • Hos 4:15
    76%

    15Though you, Israel, play the harlot, do not let Judah offend; do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Bethaven, nor swear, 'As the LORD lives.'

  • Hos 10:11
    74%

    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 14:1
    74%

    1O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.

  • Hos 5:3-6
    4 verses
    74%

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

    4They will not direct their deeds to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitution is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

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

    6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.

  • Jer 3:11
    74%

    11And the LORD said to me, Backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

  • Isa 5:17
    73%

    17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

  • Zech 11:4
    73%

    4Thus says the LORD my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter.

  • Isa 1:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.

    4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have gone away backward.

  • Jer 3:6
    72%

    6The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

  • Hos 14:4
    72%

    4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him.

  • Ezek 34:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a rich pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.

    15I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord GOD.

  • Zech 11:16
    71%

    16For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor feed what stands still. But he will eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their hooves in pieces.

  • Mic 7:14
    71%

    14Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, who dwell solitarily in the woodland, in the midst of Carmel; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

  • Jer 50:17
    71%

    17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven them away: first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

  • Jer 4:1
    71%

    1If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return to me: and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then you shall not be moved.

  • Jer 8:5
    71%

    5Why then has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.

  • Jer 31:10
    71%

    10Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the distant isles, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.

  • Mic 2:12
    71%

    12I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of people.

  • Jer 3:22
    71%

    22Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to you; for you are the LORD our God.

  • Jer 50:6
    71%

    6My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

  • Hos 11:7
    71%

    7And my people are determined to backslide from me; though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him.

  • Jer 2:3
    70%

    3Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, says the LORD.

  • Hos 7:10
    70%

    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.

  • Num 32:4
    70%

    4The country which the LORD conquered before the congregation of Israel, is a land suitable for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

  • Ezek 34:19
    70%

    19And as for my flock, they eat what you have trodden with your feet; and they drink what you have fouled with your feet.

  • Hos 13:6
    70%

    6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me.

  • Jer 4:17
    70%

    17As keepers of a field, they are against her all around; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD.

  • Isa 27:10
    70%

    10Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.

  • Jer 31:18
    70%

    18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not accustomed to the yoke: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.

  • Hos 11:4
    70%

    4I drew them with gentle cords, with bands of love, and I was to them as those who take off the yoke from their jaws, and I provided food for them.

  • Hos 10:1
    70%

    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.

  • Amos 4:3
    70%

    3And you shall go out at the breaches, each cow straight ahead, and you shall cast them into the palace, says the LORD.

  • Jer 3:20
    70%

    20Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.

  • Ezek 34:17
    70%

    17And as for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the goats.

  • Jer 5:6
    70%

    6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings have increased.

  • Jer 3:14
    70%

    14Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married to you: and I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

  • Hos 8:5
    70%

    5Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them. How long will it be until they attain innocence?

  • Jer 25:36
    70%

    36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a wailing of the leaders of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has plundered their pasture.

  • Ezek 34:7
    70%

    7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

  • Jer 3:8
    70%

    8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

  • Ps 78:71
    70%

    71From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

  • Jer 2:20
    69%

    20For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.

  • Jer 2:14
    69%

    14Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he plundered?