Hosea 11:6
And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.
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Hosea 11:6
And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.
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Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;
Psalms 68:30
Say sharp words to the beast among the water-plants, the band of strong ones, with the lords of the peoples, put an end to the people whose delight is in war.
Psalms 80:11
It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
Psalms 80:12
Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?
Psalms 80:13
It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.
Psalms 80:14
Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it,
Psalms 80:15
Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.
Psalms 80:16
It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.
Isaiah 9:14
For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.
Isaiah 18:5
For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.
Isaiah 27:10
For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.
Ezekiel 15:2
Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?
Ezekiel 15:3
Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a pin for hanging any vessel on?
Ezekiel 15:4
See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work?
Ezekiel 20:47
And say to the woodland of the South, Give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said: See, I will have a fire lighted in you, for the destruction of every green tree in you and every dry tree: the flaming flame will not be put out, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.
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Leviticus 26:25
And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters.
Leviticus 26:31
And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;
Leviticus 26:33
And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.
Deuteronomy 28:52
Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 32:25
Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.
Jeremiah 5:17
They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.
Micah 5:11
I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:
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Numbers 21:25
And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorites.
2 Samuel 20:19
Your purpose is the destruction of a mother-town in Israel: why would you put an end to the heritage of the Lord?
Ezekiel 16:44
See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.
Ezekiel 16:45
You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:48
By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daughters have done.
Ezekiel 16:53
And I will let their fate be changed, the fate of Sodom and her daughters, and the fate of Samaria and her daughters, and your fate with theirs.
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1 Kings 12:28
So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.
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Job 5:13
He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.
Isaiah 44:25
Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:
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Job 10:6
That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,
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Job 26:5
The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
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Psalms 18:45
They will be wasting away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.
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Psalms 47:9
The rulers of the peoples have come together, with the people of the God of Abraham; because the powers of the earth are God's: he is lifted up on high.
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Psalms 63:10
They will be cut off by the sword; they will be food for foxes.
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Psalms 106:39
So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.
Psalms 106:43
Again and again he made them free; but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.
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Isaiah 1:19
If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;
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Isaiah 30:1
Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
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Isaiah 30:3
And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.
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Psalms 135:17
They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.
Psalms 135:18
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
Isaiah 44:17
And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.
Isaiah 44:18
They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.
Isaiah 44:19
And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?
Isaiah 44:20
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
Isaiah 45:20
Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.
Isaiah 46:8
Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your memory, you sinners.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
Hosea 13:2
And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.
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Isaiah 55:9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Isaiah 66:16
For with fire and sword will the Lord come, judging all the earth, and his sword will be on all flesh: and great numbers will be put to death by him.
Jeremiah 47:7
How is it possible for it to be quiet, seeing that the Lord has given it orders? against Ashkelon and against the sea-land he has given it directions.
Jeremiah 50:35
A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men.
Ezekiel 14:2
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Zechariah 11:17
A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.
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Jeremiah 7:24
But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.
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2 Samuel 2:26
Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?
2 Samuel 11:25
Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.
Jeremiah 2:30
I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
Jeremiah 12:12
Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
Jeremiah 46:10
But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah 46:14
Give the news in Migdol, make it public in Noph: say, Take up your positions and make yourselves ready; for on every side of you the sword has made destruction.
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Jeremiah 48:30
I have knowledge of his wrath, says the Lord, that it is nothing; his high-sounding words have done nothing.
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Lamentations 2:9
Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.
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Ezekiel 15:5
Truly, before it was cut down, it was not used for any purpose: how much less, when the fire has made a meal of it and it is burned, will it be made into anything?
Ezekiel 15:6
For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 15:7
And my face will be turned against them; and though they have come out of the fire they will be burned up by it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord when my face is turned against them.
Malachi 4:1
For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.
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Hosea 3:3
And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.
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Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.
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Hosea 9:16
The rod has come on Ephraim, their root is dry, let them have no fruit; even though they give birth, I will put to death the dearest fruit of their bodies.
Hosea 10:8
And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.
Hosea 14:5
I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.
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Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.
Hosea 11:8
How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.
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Hosea 13:16
Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.
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Romans 1:22
Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,
Romans 1:23
And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.
Romans 1:24
For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
Romans 1:25
Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.
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