Hosea 9:16

New Century Version

Israel is beaten down; its root is dying, and it has no fruit. If they have more children, I will kill the children they love.”

Cross References

Genesis 41:23

Then seven more heads of grain sprang up after them, but these heads were thin and ugly and were burned by the hot east wind.

Job 18:16

Their roots dry up below ground, and their branches die above ground.

Isaiah 40:24

They are like plants that are placed in the ground, like seeds that are planted. As soon as they begin to grow strong, he blows on them and they die, and the wind blows them away like chaff.

Isaiah 5:24

They will be destroyed just as fire burns straw or dry grass. They will be destroyed like a plant whose roots rot and whose flower dies and blows away like dust. They have refused to obey the teachings of the Lord All-Powerful and have hated the message from the Holy God of Israel.

Ezekiel 24:21

‘Say to the people of Israel, This is what the Lord God says: I am going to dishonor my Temple. You think it gives you strength. You are proud of it, and you look at it with love and tenderness. But your sons and daughters that you left behind in Jerusalem will fall dead by the sword.

Hosea 5:11

Israel is crushed by the punishment, because it decided to follow idols.

Hosea 8:7

“Israel’s foolish plans are like planting the wind, but they will harvest a storm. Like a stalk with no head of grain, it produces nothing. Even if it produced something, other nations would eat it.

Malachi 4:1

“There is a day coming that will burn like a hot furnace, and all the proud and evil people will be like straw. On that day they will be completely burned up so that not a root or branch will be left,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

Deuteronomy 32:25

In the streets the sword will kill; in their homes there will be terror. Young men and women will die, and so will babies and gray-haired men.