Hosea 7:16

New American Bible - revised edition

They have again become useless, they have been like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongues; thus they shall be mocked in the land of Egypt.

Cross References

Psalm 12:3

They tell lies to one another, speak with deceiving lips and a double heart.

Psalm 12:4

May the Lord cut off all deceiving lips, and every boastful tongue,

Psalm 12:5

Those who say, “By our tongues we prevail; when our lips speak, who can lord it over us?”

Psalm 17:10

they close their hearts, they fill their mouths with proud roaring.

Psalm 52:2

when Doeg the Edomite entered and reported to Saul, saying to him: “David has entered the house of Ahimelech.”

Psalm 57:4

May God send help from heaven to save me, shame those who trample upon me. May God send fidelity and mercy. Selah

Psalm 73:9

They set their mouths against the heavens, their tongues roam the earth.

Psalm 78:37

Their hearts were not constant toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant.

Psalm 78:57

They turned disloyal, faithless like their ancestors; they proved false like a slack bow.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem has stumbled, Judah has fallen; for their speech and deeds affront the Lord, a provocation in the sight of his majesty.

Jeremiah 18:18

“Come,” they said, “let us devise a plot against Jeremiah, for instruction will not perish from the priests, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. Come, let us destroy him by his own tongue. Let us pay careful attention to his every word.”

Jeremiah 3:10

In spite of all this, Judah, the traitor, her sister, did not return to me wholeheartedly, but insincerely—oracle of the Lord. Restoration of Israel.

Jeremiah 42:18

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Just as my furious wrath was poured out upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my anger be poured out on you when you reach Egypt. You shall become a malediction and a horror, a curse and a reproach, and you shall never see this place again.

Ezekiel 23:32

Thus says the Lord God: The cup of your sister you shall drink, deep and wide; It brings ridicule and mockery, it holds so much;

Ezekiel 36:20

But when they came to the nations, where they went, they desecrated my holy name, for people said of them: “These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to leave their land.”

Daniel 7:25

He shall speak against the Most High and wear down the holy ones of the Most High, intending to change the feast days and the law. They shall be handed over to him for a time, two times, and half a time.

Hosea 11:5

He shall return to the land of Egypt, Assyria shall be his king, because they have refused to repent.

Hosea 11:7

My people have their mind set on apostasy; though they call on God in unison, he shall not raise them up.

Hosea 6:4

What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your loyalty is like morning mist, like the dew that disappears early.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Ruin to them, for they have rebelled against me! Though I wished to redeem them, they spoke lies against me.

Hosea 9:3

They will not dwell in the Lord’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat unclean food.

Hosea 9:4

They will not pour libations of wine to the Lord, and their sacrifices will not please him. Their bread will be like mourners’ bread, that makes unclean all who eat of it; Their food will be for their own appetites; it cannot enter the house of the Lord.

Hosea 9:6

When they flee from the devastation, Egypt will gather them, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will overgrow their silver treasures, and thorns, their tents.

Malachi 3:13

Your words are too much for me, says the Lord. You ask, “What have we spoken against you?”

Malachi 3:14

You have said, “It is useless to serve God; what do we gain by observing God’s requirements, And by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?

Matthew 12:36

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will render an account for every careless word they speak.

Luke 8:13

Those on rocky ground are the ones who, when they hear, receive the word with joy, but they have no root; they believe only for a time and fall away in time of trial.

James 3:5

In the same way the tongue is a small member and yet has great pretensions. Consider how small a fire can set a huge forest ablaze.

2 Peter 2:8

(for day after day that righteous man living among them was tormented in his righteous soul at the lawless deeds that he saw and heard),

Revelation 13:5

The beast was given a mouth uttering proud boasts and blasphemies, and it was given authority to act for forty-two months.