Hosea 5:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.

Cross References

Isaiah 51:8

For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.

Job 13:28

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

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.

Isaiah 50:9

See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm.

Proverbs 12:4

A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.

Psalm 39:11

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. Selah.

Isaiah 5:24

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.