Hosea 12:1

English Standard Version 2016

Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

Cross References

Hosea 11:12

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.

Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.

Ezekiel 17:10

Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?”

Jeremiah 22:22

The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your evil.

Job 15:2

“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

2 Kings 15:19

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.

Genesis 41:6

And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind.

Jeremiah 2:36

How much you go about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Jeremiah 7:15

And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of Ephraim.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.

Hosea 4:19

A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Hosea 7:11

Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.

2 Chronicles 21:11

Moreover, he made high places in the hill country of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom and made Judah go astray.

Psalm 78:36

But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.

Hosea 4:15

Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and swear not, “As the Lord lives.”

Hosea 7:1

when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.

Hosea 11:9

I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.