Hosea 7:16
They turn to Baal; they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt.
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- Ps 78:57 : 57 They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.
- Hos 9:3 : 3 Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus They will not remain in the LORD’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.
- Ps 73:9 : 9 They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.
- Ezek 23:32 : 32 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“You will drink your sister’s deep and wide cup; you will be scorned and derided, for it holds a great deal.
- Ps 12:4 : 4 They say,“We speak persuasively; we know how to flatter and boast. Who is our master?”
- Hos 9:6 : 6 No Escape for the Israelites This Time! Look! Even if they flee from the destruction, Egypt will take hold of them, and Memphis will bury them. The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure– thorn bushes will occupy their homes.
- Hos 11:7 : 7 My people are obsessed with turning away from me; they call to Baal, but he will never exalt them!
- Matt 12:36 : 36 I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.
- Luke 8:13 : 13 Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away.
- Luke 11:24-26 : 24 Response to Jesus’ Work“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but not finding any. Then it says,‘I will return to the home I left.’ 25 When it returns, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. 26 Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first.”
- Jas 3:5 : 5 So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.
- 2 Pet 2:8 : 8 (for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)
- Rev 13:5 : 5 The beast was given a mouth speaking proud words and blasphemies, and he was permitted to exercise ruling authority for forty-two months.
- Ps 52:2 : 2 Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.
- Ps 57:4 : 4 I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among those who want to devour me; men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are a sharp sword.
- Ps 78:37 : 37 They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
- Isa 3:8 : 8 Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the LORD; they rebel against his royal authority.
- Jer 3:10 : 10 In spite of all this, Israel’s sister, unfaithful Judah, has not turned back to me with any sincerity; she has only pretended to do so,” says the LORD.
- Jer 18:18 : 18 Jeremiah Petitions the Lord to Punish Those Who Attack Him Then some people said,“Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God’s word. Come on! Let’s bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says.”
- Ezek 36:20 : 20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them,‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they have departed from his land.’
- Hos 6:4 : 4 Transitory Faithfulness and Imminent Judgment What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, O Judah? For your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist; it disappears as quickly as dawn’s dew!
- Hos 7:13 : 13 Israel Has Turned Away from the Lord Woe to them! For they have fled from me! Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me! I want to deliver them, but they have lied to me.
- Hos 8:13-14 : 13 They offer up sacrificial gifts to me, and eat the meat, but the LORD does not accept their sacrifices. Soon he will remember their wrongdoing, he will punish their sins, and they will return to Egypt. 14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces, and Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will send fire on their cities; it will consume their royal citadels.
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27 You will never come back to this land to which you will long to return!”
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3 All your leaders ran away together– they fled to a distant place; all your refugees were captured together– they were captured without a single arrow being shot.