Hosea 5:5

Hosea Warns Against Idolatry

⁴ Their actions do not allow them
to return to their God,
for a spirit of promiscuity is among them,
and they do not know the Lord.
⁵ Israel’s arrogance testifies against them.
Both Israel and Ephraim stumble
because of their wickedness;
even Judah will stumble with them.
⁶ They go with their flocks and herds
to seek the Lord
but do not find Him;
He has withdrawn from them.

All Israel

Pride of Israel

Ephraim

Israel

Judah

Hosea 7:10

Israel’s arrogance testifies against them,
yet they do not return to Yahweh their God,
and for all this, they do not seek Him.

Ezekiel 23:31-35

You have followed the path of your sister, so I will put her cup in your hand.”

2 Kings 17:19-20

Even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless clears his path,
but the wicked person will fall because of his wickedness.

Proverbs 11:21

Be assured that the wicked
will not go unpunished,
but the offspring of the righteous will escape.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin,
but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.

Proverbs 24:16

Though a righteous man falls seven times,
he will get up,
but the wicked will stumble into ruin.

Proverbs 30:13

There is a generation—how haughty its eyes
and pretentious its looks.

Isaiah 3:9

The look on their faces testifies against them,
and like Sodom, they flaunt their sin.
They do not conceal it.
Woe to them,
for they have brought evil on themselves.

Isaiah 9:9-10

All the people—
Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria—will know it.
They will say with pride and arrogance:

Isaiah 28:1-3

Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards,
and to the fading flower of its beautiful splendor,
which is on the summit above the rich valley.
Woe to those overcome with wine.

Isaiah 44:9

All who make idols are nothing,
and what they treasure does not profit.
Their witnesses do not see or know anything,
so they will be put to shame.

Isaiah 59:12

For our transgressions have multiplied before You,
and our sins testify against us.
For our transgressions are with us,
and we know our iniquities:

Jeremiah 14:7

Though our guilt testifies against us,
Yahweh, act for Your name’s sake.
Indeed, our rebellions are many;
we have sinned against You.

Hosea 4:5

You will stumble by day;
the prophet will also stumble with you by night.
And I will destroy your mother.

Hosea 5:14

For I am like a lion to Ephraim
and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
Yes, I will tear them to pieces and depart.
I will carry them off,
and no one can rescue them.

Hosea 8:14

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
Judah has also multiplied fortified cities.
I will send fire on their cities,
and it will consume their citadels.

Hosea 14:1

Israel, return to Yahweh your God,
for you have stumbled in your sin.

Amos 2:4-5

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Judah
for three crimes, even four,
because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord
and have not kept His statutes.
The lies that their ancestors followed
have led them astray.

Amos 5:2

She has fallen;
Virgin Israel will never rise again.
She lies abandoned on her land,
with no one to raise her up.

Matthew 23:31

You, therefore, testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Luke 19:22

“He told him, ‘I will judge you by what you have said, you evil slave! If you knew I was a tough man, collecting what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow,