Hosea 4:16

World English Bible (2000)

For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

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  • Lev 26:33 : 33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
  • 1 Sam 15:11 : 11 "It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
  • Isa 5:17 : 17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
  • Isa 7:21-25 : 21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep; 22 and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land. 23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns. 24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns. 25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep."
  • Isa 22:18 : 18 He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord's house.
  • Jer 3:6 : 6 Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
  • Jer 3:8 : 8 I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
  • Jer 3:11 : 11 Yahweh said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.
  • Jer 7:24 : 24 But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
  • Jer 8:5 : 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
  • Jer 14:7 : 7 Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
  • Hos 11:7 : 7 My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won't exalt them.
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

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  • Jer 50:19
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    19 I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

  • Hos 4:17
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    17 Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

  • Hos 4:15
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    15 "Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don't let Judah offend; and don't come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, 'As Yahweh lives.'

  • Hos 10:11
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    11 Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.

  • Hos 14:1
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    1 Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

  • Hos 5:3-6
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    3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

    4 Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don't know Yahweh.

    5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

    6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

  • Jer 3:11
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    11 Yahweh said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

  • Isa 5:17
    73%

    17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

  • Zech 11:4
    73%

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

  • Isa 1:3-4
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    3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."

    4 Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

  • Jer 3:6
    72%

    6 Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.

  • Hos 14:4
    72%

    4 "I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

  • Ezek 34:14-15
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    14 I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.

    15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Zech 11:16
    71%

    16 For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

  • Mic 7:14
    71%

    14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

  • Jer 50:17
    71%

    17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

  • Jer 4:1
    71%

    1 "If you will return, Israel," says Yahweh, "if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;

  • Jer 8:5
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    5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

  • Jer 31:10
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    10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.

  • Mic 2:12
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    12 I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they will swarm with people.

  • Jer 3:22
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    22 Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. "Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.

  • Jer 50:6
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    6 My 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%

    7 My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won't exalt them.

  • Jer 2:3
    70%

    3 Israel [was] holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come on them,"' says Yahweh."

  • Hos 7:10
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    10 The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.

  • Num 32:4
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    4 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock."

  • Ezek 34:19
    70%

    19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

  • Hos 13:6
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    6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

  • Jer 4:17
    70%

    17 As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,'" says Yahweh.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

  • Jer 31:18
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    18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

  • Hos 11:4
    70%

    4 I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.

  • Hos 10:1
    70%

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  • Amos 4:3
    70%

    3 You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh.

  • Jer 3:20
    70%

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

  • Ezek 34:17
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    17 As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.

  • Jer 5:6
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    6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.

  • Jer 3:14
    70%

    14 "Return, backsliding children," says Yahweh; "for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

  • Hos 8:5
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    5 Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

  • Jer 25:36
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    36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture.

  • Ezek 34:7
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    7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

  • Jer 3:8
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    8 I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

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    71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

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    20 "For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, 'I will not serve;' for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

  • Jer 2:14
    69%

    14 Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?