Hosea 7:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Mic 7:3 : 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
  • Rom 1:32 : 32 Who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
  • Jer 28:1-4 : 1 And it came to pass in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying, 2 Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. 3 Within two full years, I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took from this place and carried to Babylon: 4 And I will bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon, says the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
  • Jer 37:19 : 19 Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly followed the commandment.
  • Hos 7:5 : 5 On the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he reaches out his hand with scorners.
  • Amos 7:10-13 : 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. 11 For thus Amos says, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land. 12 Also Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: 13 But do not prophesy again anymore at Bethel: for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.
  • 1 Kgs 22:6 : 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I refrain? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the king’s hand.
  • 1 Kgs 22:13 : 13 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one accord: let your word, I beg you, be like the word of one of them, and speak what is good.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
  • Jer 9:2 : 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers; that I might leave my people and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
  • 1 John 4:5 : 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.

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  • Mic 7:3
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    3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • Hos 7:4-7
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    78%

    4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from stirring after he has kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.

    5 On the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he reaches out his hand with scorners.

    6 For they prepare their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

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

  • Hos 7:2
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    2 And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own actions have surrounded them; they are before my face.

  • Prov 2:14
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    14 Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversity of the wicked;

  • Jer 9:3
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    3 And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4 They only plan to cast him down from his high position; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9 The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Prov 29:12
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    12 If a ruler listens to lies, all his servants are wicked.

  • Prov 12:20
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    20 Deceit is in the heart of those who imagine evil, but to the counselors of peace there is joy.

  • Jer 9:5
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    5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

    10 Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12 For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2 They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

  • Job 15:35
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    35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2 For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3 Do not draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • Prov 12:22
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    22 Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal truthfully are His delight.

  • Ezek 13:22
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    22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, so he should not turn from his wicked way, by promising him life.

  • Ps 10:3
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    3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the greedy, whom the LORD abhors.

  • Ps 78:36
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    36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

  • Ps 73:7-8
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    7 Their eyes bulge with abundance; they have more than heart could wish.

    8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly of oppression; they speak loftily.

  • Prov 17:7
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    7 Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, much less lying lips for a prince.

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    3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

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    7 The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

  • Hos 7:15-16
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    15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet they imagine mischief against me.

    16 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 ridicule in the land of Egypt.

  • Jer 7:8
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    8 Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

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

  • Job 3:14
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    14 With kings and counselors of the earth, who built ruins for themselves;

  • Ps 64:5
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    5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

  • Hos 4:8
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    8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity.

  • Zeph 3:4
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    4 Her prophets are light and treacherous people: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

  • Dan 11:27
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    27 And both these kings' hearts shall be bent on evil, and they shall speak lies at the same table; but it shall not prosper, for the end shall be at the appointed time.

  • Jer 5:27-28
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    27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich.

    28 They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

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    4 A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.

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    20 For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

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    15 And now we call the proud blessed; yes, those who do wickedness are raised up; yes, those who test God go free.

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    3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah.

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    7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • Rom 3:13
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    13 'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.'

  • Neh 9:35
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    35 For they have not served You in their kingdom, or in the vast and fertile land that You gave them, nor did they turn from their wicked works.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Jer 6:28
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    28 They are all grievous rebels, walking with slanders; they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.