Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols,
So let him alone [to suffer the consequences].
Psalm 81:12
“So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.
Hosea 4:4
Yet let no one find fault, nor let any rebuke [others];
For your people are like those who contend with the priest.
Hosea 13:2
And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves molten images,
Idols skillfully made from their silver [as it pleased them],
All of them the work of the craftsmen.
They say of these [very works of their hands], “Let those who sacrifice kiss and show respect to the calves [as if they were living gods]!”
Matthew 15:14
Hosea 11:2
The more they [the prophets] called them [to repentance and obedience],
The more they went away from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to the carved images.
Hosea 12:1
And [continually] pursues the [parching] east wind [which brings destruction];
Every day he multiplies lies and violence.
Further, he makes a covenant with Assyria
And (olive) oil is carried to Egypt [to seek alliances].
Revelation 22:11
Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy (vile, impure), still be filthy; and the one who is righteous (just, upright), still be righteous; and the one who is holy, still be holy.”
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Ephraim
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Ephraim
The more they [the prophets] called them [to repentance and obedience],
The more they went away from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to the carved images.
And [continually] pursues the [parching] east wind [which brings destruction];
Every day he multiplies lies and violence.
Further, he makes a covenant with Assyria
And (olive) oil is carried to Egypt [to seek alliances].
And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves molten images,
Idols skillfully made from their silver [as it pleased them],
All of them the work of the craftsmen.
They say of these [very works of their hands], “Let those who sacrifice kiss and show respect to the calves [as if they were living gods]!”
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Yet let no one find fault, nor let any rebuke [others];
For your people are like those who contend with the priest.
“So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.