Hosea 14:3

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Summary

Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

We will not

Neither

For

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Bible References

We will not

Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You shall never return that way again.'

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue.

who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.

Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

Neither

O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.

For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks that you desired; and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen.

In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

and he said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places,

And in that day, declares the LORD, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots;

"And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.

For

You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

The LORD watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,

"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

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So the people of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the LORD only.

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.

We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.