Hosea 7:16

Modern English Version

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a loose bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Cross References

Psalm 12:3

The Lord will cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things,

Psalm 12:4

those who say, “With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are in our control. Who is our master?”

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy sigh, now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he yearns.”

Psalm 17:10

They close their hard hearts; with their mouths they speak proudly.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men who are set on fire, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 73:9

They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue parades through the earth.

Psalm 78:37

for their heart was not steadfast toward Him, nor were they faithful in His covenant.

Psalm 78:57

but turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; they turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their tongue and their deeds are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. For the law will not be lost from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but feignedly, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 42:18

For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: As My anger and My fury have been poured out upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so will My fury be poured out upon you when you go to Egypt. And you will be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. And you shall see this place no more.

Ezekiel 23:32

Thus says the Lord God: You shall drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and wide; you shall be laughed to scorn and held in derision; it contains much.

Ezekiel 36:20

When they entered the nations, where they went, they profaned My holy name, because they said of them, “These are the people of the Lord and have gone out of His land.”

Daniel 7:25

He shall speak words against the Most High and shall wear out the saints of the Most High and plan to change times and law. And they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

Hosea 11:5

He will return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria will be his king, because they refused to return to Me.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they called to the Most High, none at all exalt Him.

Hosea 6:4

What shall I do to you, O Ephraim? What shall I do to you, O Judah? Your faithfulness is like a morning cloud, and like the early dew it goes away.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, yet they speak lies against Me.

Hosea 9:3

They will not dwell in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean things in Assyria.

Hosea 9:4

They will not offer wine offerings to the Lord, and their sacrifices will not please Him. Their sacrifices will be like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be defiled. For their bread will be only to satisfy their own hunger; it will not come into the house of the Lord.

Hosea 9:6

For behold, they are gone because of destruction. Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver, and thorns will be in their tents.

Malachi 3:13

Your words have been hard against Me, says the Lord. Yet you say, “What have we spoken against You?”

Malachi 3:14

You said, “It is vain to serve God. What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance, and that we have walked as mourners before the Lord of Hosts?

Matthew 12:36

But I say to you that for every idle word that men speak, they will give an account on the Day of Judgment.

Luke 8:13

Those on the rock are the ones who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root, for they believe for a while, then in the time of temptation fall away.

James 3:5

Even so, the tongue is a little part of the body and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles.

2 Peter 2:8

(for that righteous man lived among them, and what he saw and heard of their lawless deeds tormented his righteous soul day after day);

Revelation 13:5

He was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies. And he was given authority to wage war for forty-two months.