Hosea 4:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ “For Yisra’ĕl is stubborn, like a stubborn calf. Would יהוה now feed them like a lamb in a broad place?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For Israel has behaved stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. How then should he expect to be fed and treated by the Lord like a lamb in a large pasture?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Like a stubborn cow Israel is stubborn. Now the LORD will tend them, as the LORD tends a lamb in a pasture.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ For Israel has gone astray like a wanton heifer; so now the Lord will pasture them like a young lamb in a wide expanse.

Hosea 4:16 Cross References

Psalm 78:8

And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation which did not prepare its heart, Whose spirit was not steadfast to Ěl.

Isaiah 22:18

rolling you up tightly like a ball, into a wide land. There you are to die, and there your esteemed chariots are to be the shame of your master’s house.

Isaiah 30:23

And He shall give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread of the increase of the earth. And it shall be fat and rich, your cattle grazing in an enlarged pasture in that day,

Isaiah 5:17

And the lambs shall feed in their pasture, and strangers shall eat in the waste places of the fat ones.

Jeremiah 14:7

O יהוה, though our crookednesses witness against us, act, for Your Name’s sake. For our backslidings have been many, we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 3:11

And יהוה said to me, “Backsliding Yisra’ĕl has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Yehuḏah.

Jeremiah 3:6

And יהוה said to me in the days of Yoshiyahu the sovereign, “Have you seen what backsliding Yisra’ĕl has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there committed whoring.

Jeremiah 3:8

“And I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Yisra’ĕl had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Yehuḏah did not fear, but went and committed whoring too.

Jeremiah 31:18

“I have clearly heard Ephrayim lamenting, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained calf. Turn me back, and I shall turn back, for You are יהוה my Elohim.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them, a wolf of the deserts ravage them. A leopard is watching over their cities, whoever comes out of them is torn in pieces. For their transgressions have been many, their backslidings have been numerous.

Jeremiah 7:24

“But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 8:5

“Why then has this people, Yerushalayim, turned away in a continual backsliding? They are strengthened in deceit, they refuse to turn back.

Hosea 10:11

“And Ephrayim is a trained heifer, loving to thresh grain. But I Myself shall pass over her comely neck – I put Ephrayim to the yoke, Yehuḏah ploughs, Ya‛aqoḇ harrows for him.”

Hosea 11:6

“And the sword shall whirl in his cities, and it shall demolish his gate bars, and consume, because of their own counsels.

Hosea 11:7

“My people are bent towards backsliding from Me. Though they call to the One Above, none of them exalt Him.

Leviticus 26:33

‘And I shall scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities ruins,

Zechariah 7:11

“But they refused to listen, and they shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears from hearing.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I am grieved that I have set up Sha’ul as sovereign, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My words.” And it displeased Shemu’ĕl, and he cried to יהוה all night.