Hosea 12:1
Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.
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Hosea 12:1
Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.
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Genesis 27:19
And Jacob said, I am Esau, your oldest son; I have done as you said: come now, be seated and take of my meat, so that you may give me a blessing.
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Genesis 37:25
Then seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking up, they saw a travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead on their way to Egypt, with spices and perfumes on their camels.
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Genesis 41:6
And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind.
Isaiah 27:8
Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.
Jeremiah 18:17
I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.
Ezekiel 17:10
And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?
Ezekiel 19:12
But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.
Ezekiel 19:13
And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.
Ezekiel 19:14
And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.
Matthew 21:19
And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.
Mark 11:20
And when they were going by in the morning, they saw the fig-tree dead from the roots.
John 15:6
If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.
Acts 27:14
But after a little time, a very violent wind, named Euraquilo, came down from it with great force.
Jude 1:12
These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,
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Genesis 48:19
But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.
Genesis 48:20
So he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be the sign of blessing in Israel, for they will say, May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
Deuteronomy 33:17
He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.
Jeremiah 31:18
Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.
Jeremiah 31:19
Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 31:21
Put up guiding pillars, make road signs for yourself: give attention to the highway, even the way in which you went: be turned again, O virgin of Israel, be turned to these your towns.
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Joshua 24:9
Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you:
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Joshua 24:19
And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.
Lamentations 4:5
Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.
Romans 6:19
I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
Romans 6:20
When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.
Romans 6:21
What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
1 Peter 1:2
Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.
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1 Samuel 19:16
And when the men came in, there was the image in the bed, with the cushion of goat's hair at its head
Psalms 149:2
Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.
Isaiah 54:5
For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth.
Hosea 12:5
Even the Lord, the God of armies; the Lord is his name.
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2 Kings 16:8
And Ahaz took the silver and gold which were in the house of the Lord and in the king's store-house, and sent them as an offering to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 16:9
And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.
2 Kings 16:10
Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria; and there he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a copy of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure.
2 Kings 16:11
And from the copy King Ahaz sent from Damascus, Urijah made an altar and had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus.
2 Kings 17:18
So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and his face was turned away from them: only the tribe of Judah kept its place.
2 Kings 17:19
(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
2 Chronicles 28:16
At that time King Ahaz sent for help to the king of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 28:17
For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.
2 Chronicles 28:18
And the Philistines, forcing their way into the towns of the lowlands and the south of Judah, had taken Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth and Soco, with their daughter-towns, as well as Timnah and Gimzo and their daughter-towns, and were living there.
Ezekiel 16:28
And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting like a loose woman with them, and still you had not enough.
Ezekiel 23:16
And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.
Ezekiel 23:31
You have gone in the way of your sister; and I will give her cup into your hand.
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Ezra 10:10
And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.
1 Corinthians 5:6
This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way.
2 Thessalonians 2:8
And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;
2 Timothy 2:16
But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,
2 Timothy 3:13
Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.
Titus 1:11
By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.
Hebrews 12:15
Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;
2 Peter 2:2
And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.
2 Peter 2:18
For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;
Revelation 13:3
And I saw one of his heads as if it had been given a death-wound; and his death-wound was made well: and all the earth was wondering at the beast.
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Job 6:26
My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.
Job 8:2
How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
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Psalms 7:10
God, who is the saviour of the upright in heart, is my breastplate.
Isaiah 19:4
And I will give the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a hard king will be their ruler, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
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Psalms 55:2
Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;
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Psalms 78:36
But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;
Isaiah 2:8
Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.
Isaiah 5:1
Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
Hosea 4:11
Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
Hosea 6:3
And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
Hosea 7:14
And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.
Hosea 7:16
They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.
Hosea 8:4
They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.
Hosea 9:10
I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.
Hosea 10:1
Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.
Hosea 12:7
As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
Amos 3:9
Give out the news in the great houses of Assyria and in the land of Egypt, and say, Come together on the mountains of Samaria, and see what great outcries are there, and what cruel acts are done in it.
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Psalms 102:9
I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
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Proverbs 19:7
All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...
Proverbs 19:9
A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.
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Psalms 73:6
For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.
Ecclesiastes 1:6
The wind goes to the south, turning back again to the north; circling round for ever.
Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:18
Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.
Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
Ecclesiastes 2:8
I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.
Ecclesiastes 2:9
And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.
Ecclesiastes 2:10
And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.
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Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
Ecclesiastes 4:16
There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:7
Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
Ecclesiastes 6:11
There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
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2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali; and he took the people away to Assyria.
2 Kings 17:5
Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel away to Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes.
2 Kings 18:13
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.
Isaiah 7:5
Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying,
Isaiah 7:8
For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be broken, and will no longer be a people):
Isaiah 7:9
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not have faith, your kingdom will be broken.
Isaiah 7:18
And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah 7:20
In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 8:7
For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:
Isaiah 8:8
And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; ***and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us.
Isaiah 10:5
Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
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2 Kings 18:21
See, now, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go through a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.
Isaiah 7:19
And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.
Isaiah 7:21
And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep;
Isaiah 7:22
And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.
Isaiah 7:23
And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.
Isaiah 7:24
Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.
Isaiah 7:25
And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ...fear of blackberries and thorns.
Isaiah 10:10
As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria;
Isaiah 10:11
So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.
Isaiah 25:4
For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.
Ezekiel 29:3
Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.
Jonah 4:7
But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.
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Isaiah 46:1
Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.
Isaiah 46:2
They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.
Amos 5:26
Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
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Isaiah 47:13
But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.
Isaiah 57:10
You were tired with your long journeys; but you did not say, There is no hope: you got new strength, and so you were not feeble.
Jeremiah 10:14
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 10:15
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
Jeremiah 51:58
The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.
Ezekiel 24:12
I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?
Habakkuk 2:19
A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.
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Proverbs 12:23
A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
Jeremiah 9:2
If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
Jeremiah 9:3
Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:4
Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.
Jeremiah 9:6
There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Hosea 9:8
There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.
Micah 7:3
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
Micah 7:4
The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.
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Psalms 33:17
A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.
Psalms 40:4
Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.
Psalms 146:3
Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Isaiah 59:4
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Isaiah 59:12
For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.
Jeremiah 17:5
This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
Hosea 5:1
Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.
Micah 6:12
For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
Micah 7:5
Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.
Micah 7:6
For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.
Micah 7:7
But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.
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Jeremiah 17:17
Be not a cause of fear to me: you are my safe place in the day of evil.
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Jeremiah 44:12
And I will take the last of Judah, whose minds are fixed on going into the land of Egypt and stopping there, and they will all come to their end, falling in the land of Egypt by the sword and by being short of food and by disease; death will overtake them, from the least to the greatest, death by the sword and by need of food: they will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame.
Jeremiah 44:13
For I will send punishment on those who are living in the land of Egypt, as I have sent punishment on Jerusalem, by the sword and by need of food and by disease:
Jeremiah 44:14
So that not one of the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will get away or keep his life, to come back to the land of Judah where they are hoping to come back and be living again: for not one will come back, but only those who are able to get away.
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Ezekiel 23:4
Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah.
Ezekiel 23:6
Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.
Ezekiel 23:8
And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.
Ezekiel 23:13
And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.
Ezekiel 23:30
They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.
Hosea 12:14
I have been bitterly moved to wrath by Ephraim; so that his blood will be on him, and the Lord will make his shame come back on him.
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Ezekiel 29:17
Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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2 Chronicles 25:10
So Amaziah, separating the armed band which had come to him from Ephraim, sent them back again; which made them very angry with Judah, and they went back burning with wrath.
2 Chronicles 28:12
Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah, the son of Johanan, Berechiah, the son of Meshillemoth Jehizkiah, the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, put themselves against those who had come from the war,
Isaiah 11:13
And the envy of Ephraim will be gone, and those who make trouble for Judah will come to an end: Ephraim will have no more envy of Judah, and there will be an end of Judah's hate for Ephraim.
Ezekiel 37:16
And you, son of man, take one stick, writing on it, For Judah and for the children of Israel who are in his company: then take another stick, writing on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel who are in his company:
Ezekiel 37:17
Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand.
Ezekiel 37:18
And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us?
Ezekiel 37:19
Then say to them, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am taking the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel who are in his company; and I will put it on the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.
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Ezekiel 16:34
And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make love to you: and because you give payment and no payment is given to you, in this you are different from them.
Hosea 4:7
Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.
Hosea 4:10
They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.
Joel 1:10
The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.
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Job 21:30
How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?
Isaiah 29:13
And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
Hosea 2:8
For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.
Hosea 6:4
O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.
Hosea 7:3
In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
Hosea 7:7
They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.
Hosea 7:8
Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Hosea 9:6
For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.
Hosea 10:3
Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?
Hosea 11:2
When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.
Hosea 13:1
When the words of my law came from Ephraim, he was lifted up in Israel; but when he did evil through the Baal, death overtook him.
Romans 2:5
But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
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Jeremiah 2:23
How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;
Jeremiah 22:22
All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing.
Ezekiel 7:10
See, the day; see, it is coming: the crowning time has gone out; the twisted way is flowering, pride has put out buds.
Daniel 9:27
And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
Hosea 2:5
For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.
Hosea 2:6
For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.
Hosea 2:7
And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.
Hosea 2:10
And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.
Hosea 3:1
And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.
Hosea 4:3
Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.
Hosea 7:12
When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.
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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1 Kings 5:11
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.
Hosea 1:1
The word of the Lord which came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.
Hosea 5:5
And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.
Hosea 5:7
They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.
Hosea 5:10
The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.
Hosea 5:12
And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.
Hosea 5:14
For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.
Amos 1:9
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they gave up all the people prisoners to Edom, without giving a thought to the brothers' agreement between them.
Amos 2:5
And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.
Amos 3:1
Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Amos 6:1
Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!
Micah 1:5
All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
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Hosea 5:6
They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.
Hosea 5:8
Let the horn be sounded in Gibeah and in Ramah; give a loud cry in Beth-aven, They are after you, O Benjamin.
Amos 2:6
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;
Amos 2:7
Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
Amos 2:8
By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.
Micah 1:1
The word of the Lord which came to Micah the Morashtite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah: his vision about Samaria and Jerusalem.
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Proverbs 3:14
For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold.
Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
Luke 15:15
And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food.
Romans 9:31
But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.
Romans 10:2
For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.
Romans 10:3
Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
Philippians 3:4
Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:
Philippians 3:5
Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:
Philippians 3:6
In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
Philippians 3:7
But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.
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Mark 9:9
And while they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to give word to any man of the things they had seen, till the Son of man had come back from the dead.
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1 Corinthians 9:26
So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:
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Proverbs 30:8
Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:
Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;
2 Corinthians 8:8
I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.
2 Corinthians 9:10
And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;
Ephesians 3:19
And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.
James 2:15
If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,
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Isaiah 30:10
Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:
Jeremiah 23:25
My ears have been open to what the prophets have said, who say false words in my name, saying, I have had a dream, I have had a dream, I have had a dream,
Jeremiah 23:26
Is (my word) in the hearts of the prophets who give out false words, even the prophets of the deceit of their hearts?
Jeremiah 23:32
See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:18
This is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the women who are stitching bands on all arms and putting veils on the heads of those of every size, so that they may go after souls! Will you go after the souls of my people and keep yourselves safe from death?
Ephesians 4:14
So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;
2 Timothy 4:4
And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.
Titus 1:12
One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.
Titus 1:13
This witness is true. So say sharp words to them so that they may come to the right faith,
Hebrews 13:9
Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.
Revelation 13:14
And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.
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