Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Bible References
As a
Job 13:28
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Isaiah 50:9
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
Isaiah 51:8
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
As
Proverbs 12:4
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
Rottenness
Jonah 4:7
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.
Mark 9:44
45 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into hell.