Hosea 12:2

The Lord brings a legal charge against Judah and will repay Jacob according to his deeds. It declares God's righteous reckoning with his people's sin.

Cross-references · 20

• Mic 6:2Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:
• Hos 4:1Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
• Isa 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
• Isa 10:12So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
• Hos 8:13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
• Hos 2:13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
• Jer 3:8–11She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
• Isa 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
• Isa 8:7–8the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
• Jer 25:31The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,’” declares the LORD.
• Isa 24:21In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
• Ezek 23:11–21Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
• Hos 4:9And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
• Isa 59:18So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.
• Ezek 23:31–32Because you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.’
• 2 Kgs 17:19–20and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
• Hos 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
• Rom 2:6God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
• Gal 6:7Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
• Matt 16:27For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.

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