Hosea 4:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Isaiah 22:18

and whirl you round and round, and throw you like a ball into a wide land; there you shall die, and there shall be your splendid chariots, you shame of your master's house.

Isaiah 30:23

And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your cattle will graze in large pastures;

Isaiah 5:17

Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, fatlings and kids shall feed among the ruins.

Jeremiah 14:7

“Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against thee.

Jeremiah 3:11

And 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 there played the harlot?

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 too went and played the harlot.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have heard Ephraim bemoaning, ‘Thou hast chastened me, and I was chastened, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for thou art the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 5:6

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

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.

Hosea 10:11

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

Hosea 11:6

The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them in their fortresses.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning away from me; so they are appointed to the yoke, and none shall remove it.

Leviticus 26:33

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

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to hearken, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I repent that I have made Saul king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry; and he cried to the Lord all night.