Hosea 5:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.

Cross References

Job 13:28

One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Psalm 39:11

“You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah

Proverbs 12:4

A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become rotten, and their blossom go up like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 50:9

It is the Lord God who helps me; who will declare me guilty? All of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.

Isaiah 51:8

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool, but my deliverance will be forever and my salvation to all generations.

Jonah 4:7

But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the bush, so that it withered.