Hosea 7:11

World English Bible (2000)

"Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

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  • Hos 5:13 : 13 "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
  • Hos 11:11 : 11 They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses," says Yahweh.
  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
  • Hos 8:8-9 : 8 Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing. 9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy."
  • 2 Kgs 15:19 : 19 There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
  • 2 Kgs 17:3-4 : 3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute. 4 The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
  • Prov 6:32 : 32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
  • Prov 15:32 : 32 He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
  • Prov 17:16 : 16 Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
  • Isa 30:1-6 : 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, 2 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes. 5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach." 6 The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
  • Isa 31:1-3 : 1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh! 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
  • Jer 2:18 : 18 Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
  • Ezek 23:4-8 : 4 The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah. 5 Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors, 6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. 7 She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself. 8 Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.

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  • Hos 8:8-11
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    8 Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

    9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

    10 But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.

    11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.

  • Hos 7:8-10
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    8 Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

    9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it.

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

  • Hos 7:12-13
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    12 When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

    13 Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

  • Hos 12:1
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    1 Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

  • Hos 11:11-12
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    11 They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses," says Yahweh.

    12 Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.

  • Hos 10:6
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    6 It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.

  • Isa 30:2
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    2 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

  • Hos 4:16-17
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    16 For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

    17 Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

  • Hos 11:2-5
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    2 They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

    3 Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn't know that I healed them.

    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.

    5 "They won't return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.

  • Hos 5:11-14
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    11 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

    12 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

    13 "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

    14 For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

  • Hos 9:11
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    11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.

  • Hos 9:3
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    3 They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

  • 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.

  • Isa 31:1
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    1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh!

  • Hos 11:7
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    7 My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won't exalt them.

  • Isa 7:17-18
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    17 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

    18 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

  • Hos 7:16
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    16 They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

  • Isa 52:4
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    4 For thus says the Lord Yahweh, "My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.

  • Jer 2:36
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    36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

  • Isa 30:7
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    7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.

  • Hos 5:9
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    9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

  • Hos 7:1
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    1 When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.

  • Hos 12:14
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    14 Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt.

  • Deut 32:28
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    28 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

  • Hos 9:17
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    17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.

  • Isa 20:4
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    4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

  • 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.

  • Ezek 23:9
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    9 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

  • Ps 78:9
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    9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

  • Isa 18:1
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    1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

  • 2 Kgs 17:7
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    7 It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,