Hosea 4:16

Tree of Life Version

For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn cow. Now Adonai will pasture them like a lamb in the open field.

Cross References

Psalm 78:8

So they will not be like their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not prepare its heart, whose spirit was not loyal to God.

Isaiah 22:18

He will roll you up tightly and toss you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and your glorious chariots will be the shame of your Master’s house.

Isaiah 30:23

Then He will give you rain for your seed, which you will sow in the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will feed in wide-open pasture.

Isaiah 5:17

Then lambs will graze as if in their own pasture, and nomads will eat in the ruins of the wealthy.

Jeremiah 14:7

Though our iniquities testify against us, Adonai, act for Your Name’s sake. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 3:11

Then Adonai said to me, “Backsliding Israel has proved herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.

Jeremiah 3:6

Then Adonai said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel did? She went up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there she committed adultery.

Jeremiah 3:8

I noted that when backsliding Israel committed adultery I sent her away and gave her a certificate of divorce. Yet, unfaithful Judah, her sister, did not fear. Instead she also went and committed adultery.

Jeremiah 31:18

For after I returned, I repented, and after that I was instructed, I struck my thigh— I was ashamed and also humiliated, for I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them. A desert wolf will ravage them. A leopard watches over their cities. Everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces, For their rebellion is great, their backslidings frequent.

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not listen or pay attention. Instead they followed their own counsel, in the stubbornness of their evil heart. They have gone backward and not forward,

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then has this people—Jerusalem— turned away in perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

Hosea 10:11

Though Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh, I put a yoke over her fair neck. I will make Ephraim pull; Judah will plow; Jacob will drag a harrow by himself.”

Hosea 11:6

So a sword will fall on his cities, and destroy and devour his gate bars because of their own counsels.

Hosea 11:7

So My people are bent on turning from Me. Although they are being called upwards, none will rise up.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations and I will draw out the sword after you. So your land will become a desolation and your cities will become a waste.

Zechariah 7:11

“But they refused to pay attention. They stubbornly turned their backs and stopped their ears from hearing.

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.” So Samuel was troubled and cried out to Adonai all night long.