Hosea 13:15

Though Ephraim flourishes for a time, a scorching east wind from the LORD will dry up its springs and plunder its treasures. It warns that fruitfulness apart from God will wither under judgment.

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• Ezek 19:12But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.
• Ezek 17:10Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”
• Gen 49:22Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
• Gen 41:52And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
• Jer 4:11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;
• Gen 48:19But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”
• Jer 20:5I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.
• Isa 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
• Hos 4:19The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
• Jer 51:36Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
• Hos 9:11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
• Ps 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
• Isa 14:21Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
• Dan 11:8He will take even their gods captive to Egypt, with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold. For some years he will stay away from the king of the North,
• Nah 2:9“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.
• Ps 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
• Hos 10:1Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.
• Deut 33:17His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”
• Job 18:16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
• Isa 41:16You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

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