Hosea 4:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

Cross References

Psalm 78:8

and that they should not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Isaiah 22:18

whirl you round and round, and throw you like a ball into a wide land; there you shall die, and there your splendid chariots shall lie, O you disgrace to your master’s house!

Isaiah 30:23

He will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plenteous. On that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures,

Isaiah 5:17

Then the lambs shall graze as in their pasture; fatted calves and kids shall feed among the ruins.

Jeremiah 14:7

Although our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name’s sake; our rebellions indeed are many, and we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 3:11

Then the Lord said to me: Faithless Israel has shown herself less guilty than false Judah.

Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree and prostituted herself there?

Jeremiah 3:8

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce, yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and prostituted herself.

Jeremiah 31:18

Indeed, I heard Ephraim pleading: “You disciplined me, and I took the discipline; I was like an untrained calf. Bring me back; let me come back, for you are the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall kill them; a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many; their faithlessness is great.

Jeremiah 7:24

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels and looked backward rather than forward.

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then has this people turned away in perpetual faithlessness? They have held fast to deceit; they have refused to return.

Hosea 10:11

Ephraim was a trained heifer that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck, but I will make Ephraim break the ground; Judah must plow; Jacob must harrow for himself.

Hosea 11:6

The sword rages in their cities; it consumes their oracle priests and devours because of their schemes.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning away from me. To the Most High they call, but he does not raise them up at all.

Leviticus 26:33

And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to listen and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears in order not to hear.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not carried out my commands.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the Lord all night.