Hosea 5:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Isa 51:8 : 8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool: but my righteousness will last forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 And he, like a decaying thing, consumes, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
  • Prov 12:4 : 4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she who causes shame is as rottenness in his bones.
  • Isa 50:9 : 9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
  • Jonah 4:7 : 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning arose the next day, and it attacked the plant so that it withered.
  • Mark 9:43-48 : 43 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched; 44 Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched; 46 Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire; 48 Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

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  • Hos 5:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

    14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

  • 28 And he, like a decaying thing, consumes, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • Hos 5:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

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

    10 The princes of Judah were like those who remove a boundary: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

    11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly followed the commandment.

  • 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.

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

  • 11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.

  • Hos 6:4-5
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    4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is like a morning cloud, and as the early dew it vanishes.

    5 Therefore I have cut them down by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments are as the light that goes forth.

  • 24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Mic 1:8-9
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    8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning as the ostriches.

    9 For her wound is incurable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

  • 16 Ephraim 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.

  • 9 Thus says the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

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

  • 6 You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you have gone backward: therefore I will stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.

  • 12 For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is severe.

  • 13 Therefore I will make you sick by striking you, making you desolate because of your sins.

  • 15 There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

  • 1 Hear this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

  • 1 When 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.

  • 15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

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

  • 1 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.

  • 5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

  • 17 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

  • 17 The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • 15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

  • 8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.

  • 13 I will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall wither; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

  • 6 For thus says the LORD to the house of the king of Judah; You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

  • 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for its people shall mourn over it, and its priests who rejoiced on it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.

  • 19 How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

  • 15 And I will strike the winter house with the summer house; the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end, says the LORD.

  • 17 The 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.

  • 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

  • 6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Like the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  • 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from birth, from the womb, and from conception.

  • 14 Thus says the LORD against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

  • 13 The 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.

  • 11 For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so have I caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me, says the LORD; that they might be to me a people, and a name, and a praise, and a glory: but they would not hear.

  • 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

  • 12 Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.

  • 8 How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I deliver you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is kindled together.

  • 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

  • 12 When they go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

  • 12 Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.