Hosea 7:16

They turn, but not to the Most High; like a faulty bow they fail, and their scornful leaders will fall by the sword.

Cross-references · 23

• Ps 78:57but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
• Hos 9:3They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
• Ezek 23:32“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.
• Ps 73:9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
• Ps 12:4who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”
• Matt 12:36I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
• Hos 9:6For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.
• Ezek 36:20When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone out of his land.
• Hos 7:13Woe 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.
• Luke 8:13Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
• Luke 11:24–26The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’
• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Jas 3:5So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
• Isa 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
• Ps 52:2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Ps 78:37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
• Hos 8:13–14As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it; But Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
• Jer 3:10Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
• Hos 6:4“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
• Rev 13:5A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
• 2 Pet 2:8(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):
• Hos 11:7My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.
• Jer 18:18Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

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