Hosea 9:16

Good News Translation

The people of Israel are like a plant whose roots have dried up and which bears no fruit. They will have no children, but even if they did, I would kill the children so dear to them.”

Cross References

Genesis 41:23

Then seven heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the desert wind,

Job 18:16

Their roots and branches are withered and dry.

Isaiah 40:24

They are like young plants, just set out and barely rooted. When the Lord sends a wind, they dry up and blow away like straw.

Isaiah 5:24

So now, just as straw and dry grass shrivel and burn in the fire, your roots will rot and your blossoms will dry up and blow away, because you have rejected what the Lord Almighty, Israel's holy God, has taught us.

Ezekiel 24:21

to give you Israelites this message: You are proud of the strength of the Temple. You like to look at it and to visit it, but the Lord is going to profane it. And the younger members of your families who are left in Jerusalem will be killed in war.

Hosea 5:11

Israel is suffering oppression; she has lost land that was rightfully hers, because she insisted on going for help to those who had none to give.

Hosea 8:7

When they sow the wind, they will reap a storm! A field of grain that doesn't ripen can never produce any bread. But even if it did, foreigners would eat it up.

Malachi 4:1

The Lord Almighty says, “The day is coming when all proud and evil people will burn like straw. On that day they will burn up, and there will be nothing left of them.

Deuteronomy 32:25

War will bring death in the streets; terrors will strike in the homes. Young men and young women will die; neither babies nor old people will be spared.