Hosea 9:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Israel, when I first met you, I thought of you as palm trees growing in fertile ground. Now you lead your people out, only to be slaughtered.

Cross References

Job 27:14

They may have many children, but most of them will go hungry or suffer a violent death.

Jeremiah 7:15

And as for you, people of Judah, I'm going to send you away from my land, just as I sent away the people of Ephraim and the other northern tribes.

Jeremiah 9:21

‘We were in our fortress, but death sneaked in through our windows. It even struck down children at play and our strongest young men.’

Lamentations 2:22

When you were angry, LORD, you invited my enemies like guests for a party. No one survived that day; enemies killed my children, my own little ones.

Ezekiel 27:3

the city that is built along the sea and that trades with nations along the coast. Tell the people of Tyre that the following message is from me: Tyre, you boast about your perfect beauty,

Hosea 10:14

So war will break out, and your fortresses will be destroyed. Your enemies will do to you what Shalman did to the people of Beth-Arbel— mothers and their children will be beaten to death against rocks.

Hosea 13:16

Samaria will be punished for turning against me. It will be destroyed in war— children will be beaten against rocks, and pregnant women will be ripped open.

Hosea 13:8

and rip you apart like a bear robbed of her cubs. I will gnaw on your bones, as though I were a lion or some other wild animal.

Hosea 14:1

Israel, return! Come back to the LORD, your God. Sin has made you fall.

Hosea 9:16

Israel, you are a vine with dried up roots and fruitless branches. Even if you had more children and loved them dearly, I would slaughter them all.

Amos 7:17

Now, listen to what the LORD says about you: Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will be killed in war, and your land will be divided among others. You will die in a country of foreigners, and the people of Israel will be dragged from their homeland.