Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

Rottenness

Bible References

As a

Job 13:28

While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Isaiah 50:9

In fact, the Lord God helps Me;
Who is he who condemns Me [as guilty]?
Indeed, they will all wear out like a garment;
The moth will eat them.
Isaiah 51:8

“For the moth will eat them like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness and justice [faithfully promised] will exist forever,
And My salvation to all generations.”

As

Proverbs 12:4

A virtuous and excellent wife [worthy of honor] is the crown of her husband,
But she who shames him [with her foolishness] is like rottenness in his bones.

Rottenness

Jonah 4:7
But God prepared a worm when morning dawned the next day, and it attacked the plant and it withered.
Mark 9:44
[where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.]