Hosea 9:16

Legacy Standard Bible

Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; They will bear no fruit. Even though they bear children, I will put to death the desirable ones of their womb.

Cross References

Genesis 41:23

and behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them;

Job 18:16

“His roots are dried below, And his branch is cut off above.

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely have they been planted; Scarcely have they been sown; Scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, But He merely blows on them, and they wither, And the storm carries them away like stubble.

Isaiah 5:24

¶Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected the law of Yahweh of hosts And the word of the Holy One of Israel they have spurned.

Ezekiel 24:21

‘Say to the house of Israel, “Thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, Because he was determined to walk after man’s command.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no growth; It makes no flour. Should it make anything, strangers would swallow it up.

Malachi 4:1

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every worker of wickedness will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them aflame,” says Yahweh of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”

Deuteronomy 32:25

‘Outside the sword will bereave, And inside terror— Both choice man and virgin, The nursing baby with the man of gray hair.