Hosea 4:16 - English Standard Version 2016

¹⁶ Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For Israel has behaved stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. How then should he expect to be fed and treated by the Lord like a lamb in a large pasture?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Like a stubborn cow Israel is stubborn. Now the LORD will tend them, as the LORD tends a lamb in a pasture.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ For Israel has gone astray like a wanton heifer; so now the Lord will pasture them like a young lamb in a wide expanse.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer: now will the Lord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.

Hosea 4:16 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

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 around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious 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 bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures,

Isaiah 5:17

Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

Jeremiah 14:7

“Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 3:11

And the Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous 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 whore?

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 treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone 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 calf 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 because of their own counsels.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.

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 pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I regret 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.