Hosea 7:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

They turn back -- not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This `is' their derision in the land of Egypt!

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  • Ps 78:57 : 57 And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim `to' Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat.
  • Ps 73:9 : 9 They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.
  • Ezek 23:32 : 32 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The cup of thy sister thou dost drink, The deep and the wide one, (Thou art for laughter and for scorn,) Abundant to contain.
  • Ps 12:4 : 4 Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips `are' our own; who `is' lord over us?'
  • Hos 9:6 : 6 For, lo, they have gone because of destruction, Egypt gathereth them, Moph burieth them, The desirable things of their silver, Nettles possess them -- a thorn `is' in their tents.
  • Hos 11:7 : 7 And My people are hanging in suspense, about My returning, And unto the Most High they do call, Together they exalt not.
  • Matt 12:36 : 36 `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;
  • Luke 8:13 : 13 `And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
  • Luke 11:24-26 : 24 `When the unclean spirit may go forth from the man it walketh through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding, it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth; 25 and having come, it findeth `it' swept and adorned; 26 then doth it go, and take to it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having entered, they dwell there, and the last of that man becometh worst than the first.'
  • Jas 3:5 : 5 so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!
  • 2 Pet 2:8 : 8 for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing.
  • Rev 13:5 : 5 And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things, and evil-speakings, and there was given to it authority to make war forty-two months,
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul `is' in the midst of lions, I lie down `among' flames -- sons of men, Their teeth `are' a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.
  • Isa 3:8 : 8 For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings `are' against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.
  • Jer 3:10 : 10 And even in all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned back unto Me with all her heart, but with falsehood, an affirmation of Jehovah.'
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.
  • Ezek 36:20 : 20 And one goeth in unto the nations whither they have gone, And they pollute My holy name by saying to them, The people of Jehovah `are' these, And from His land they have gone forth.
  • Hos 6:4 : 4 What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness `is' as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early -- going.
  • Hos 7:13 : 13 Wo to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I -- I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,
  • Hos 8:13-14 : 13 The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They -- `to' Egypt they turn back. 14 And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!

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