Hosea 7:16

The Scriptures 1998

“They return, but not to the Most High. They have been like a slack bow. Their rulers fall by the sword for the cursings of their tongue. This is their scorn in the land of Mitsrayim.

Cross References

Hosea 9:3

They shall not dwell in the land of יהוה, but Ephrayim shall return to Mitsrayim, and eat unclean food in Ashshur.

Psalm 78:57

But they turned back And acted treacherously like their fathers; They twisted like a treacherous bow.

Ezekiel 23:32

“Thus said the Master יהוה, ‘Drink of your sister’s cup, the deep and wide one – you being laughed at and mocked at – for it holds much.

Psalm 73:9

They have set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue walks through the earth, saying:

Hosea 9:6

For look, they shall go because of destruction – Mitsrayim gathers them up, Moph buries them, nettles possess their valuables of silver, thorns are in their tents.

Psalm 12:4

Who have said, “With our tongue we do mightily; Our lips are our own; Who is master over us?”

Revelation 13:5

And he was given a mouth speaking great matters and blasphemies, and he was given authority to do so forty-two months.

2 Peter 2:8

(for day after day that righteous man, dwelling among them, tortured his righteous being by seeing and hearing their lawless works),

James 3:5

So too the tongue is a little member, yet boasts greatly. See how a little fire kindles a great forest!

Luke 8:13

“And those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy. And these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of trial fall away.

Matthew 12:36

“And I say to you that for every idle word men speak, they shall give an account of it in the day of judgment.

Hosea 11:7

“My people are bent towards backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He lifts none of them up.

Hosea 7:13

“Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, because they have transgressed against Me! And I Myself have ransomed them, yet they have spoken falsehoods against Me,

Hosea 6:4

“Ephrayim, what would I do with you? Yehuḏ

Ezekiel 36:20

“And when they came to the gentiles, wherever they went, they profaned My set-apart Name for it was said of them, ‘These are the people of יהוה, and yet they have gone out of His land.’

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Yirmeyahu, for the Torah shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not listen to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 3:10

“And yet for all this her treacherous sister Yehuḏ

Isaiah 3:8

For Yerushalayim has stumbled, and Yehuḏ

Psalm 78:37

For their heart was not steadfast with Him, And they were not true to His covenant.

Psalm 57:4

My being is in the midst of lions; I lie among those who breathe fire, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue is a sharp sword.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Psalm 12:3

יהוה  does cut off all flattering lips, A tongue that speaks swelling words,

Psalm 17:10

They are enclosed in their own fat, They speak proudly with their mouths,

Daniel 7:25

and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times and law, and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time.

Hosea 11:5

“No, let him return to the land of Mitsrayim, and let Ashshur be his sovereign, because they refused to repent!

Malachi 3:13

“Your words have been harsh against Me,” said יהוה, “but you have said, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

Malachi 3:14

“You have said, ‘It is worthless to serve Elohim. And what did we gain when we guarded His Charge, and when we walked as mourners before יהוה  of hosts?

Psalm 12:5

“Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, I now arise,” says יהוה, “I set in safety – he pants for it.”

Jeremiah 42:18

“For thus said יהוה  of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Hosea 9:4

They do not pour wine offerings to יהוה, nor are their offerings pleasing to Him – it being like bread of mourners to them, all who eat it are defiled. For their bread is for their life, it does not come into the House of יהוה.