My God will reject them Because they have not listened to Him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.
Parallel translations
- WEB My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
- KJV My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- BSB My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- NKJV My God will cast them away, Because they did not obey Him; And they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- NLT My God will reject the people of Israel because they will not listen or obey. They will be wanderers, homeless among the nations.
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Quick answer
Because they would not listen, God will reject them, and they will become wanderers among the nations.
Overview
Hosea concludes the section by declaring that Israel's refusal to obey will lead to their being cast off and scattered as homeless wanderers. Disobedience to God's word brings the loss of place and identity. This dispersion stands as a solemn consequence of rejecting God, contrasted with the gathering of the scattered into one people through the gospel of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 28
- Deut 28:64–65Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
- 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.
- Zech 1:4Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
- Zech 7:11–14But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
- Acts 3:23It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
- Isa 48:18Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
- Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
- Jer 35:15–17I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Return now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and don’t go after other gods to serve them, and you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers:’ but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.
- Jer 26:4–6You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
- Hos 4:10They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.
- Amos 9:9“For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
- Deut 32:26I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
- Neh 5:19Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
- Ps 81:11–13But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
- 2 Kgs 17:14–20Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.
- 2 Chr 36:16but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
- Isa 7:13He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
- Prov 29:1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
- Jer 25:3–4From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.
- 1 Kgs 14:15–16For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.
- 2 Chr 18:13Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak.”
- Ps 31:14But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”
- John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
- Phil 4:19My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
- Amos 8:2He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
- Jas 1:1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
- John 20:28Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
- John 7:35The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
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