Hosea 6:4

What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, O Judah? For your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist; it disappears as quickly as dawn's dew!

Hosea 11:8

How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart! All my tender compassions are aroused!

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.

Psalm 78:34-37

When he struck them down, they sought his favor; they turned back and longed for God.

Judges 2:18-19

When the Lord raised up leaders for them, the Lord was with each leader and delivered the people from their enemies while the leader remained alive. The Lord felt sorry for them when they cried out in agony because of what their harsh oppressors did to them.

Psalm 106:12-13

They believed his promises; they sang praises to him.

Isaiah 5:3-4

So now, residents of Jerusalem, people of Judah, you decide between me and my vineyard!

Jeremiah 3:10

In spite of all this, Israel's sister, unfaithful Judah, has not turned back to me with any sincerity; she has only pretended to do so," says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:19

"I thought to myself, 'Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son! What a joy it would be for me to give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!' I thought you would call me, 'Father' and would never cease being loyal to me.

Jeremiah 5:7

The Lord asked, "How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.

Jeremiah 5:9

I will surely punish them for doing such things!" says the Lord. "I will surely bring retribution on such a nation as this!"

Jeremiah 5:23

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone their own way.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore the Lord who rules over all says, "I will now purify them in the fires of affliction and test them. The wickedness of my dear people has left me no choice. What else can I do?

Jeremiah 34:15

Recently, however, you yourselves showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own.

Hosea 7:1

whenever I want to heal Israel, the sin of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria are exposed. For they do what is wrong; thieves break into houses, and gangs rob people out in the streets.

Matthew 13:21

But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

Luke 13:7-9

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?'

Luke 19:41-42

Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

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O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

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Judges 2:18
When the Lord raised up leaders for them, the Lord was with each leader and delivered the people from their enemies while the leader remained alive. The Lord felt sorry for them when they cried out in agony because of what their harsh oppressors did to them.
Psalm 78:34
When he struck them down, they sought his favor; they turned back and longed for God.
Psalm 106:12
They believed his promises; they sang praises to him.
Jeremiah 3:10
In spite of all this, Israel's sister, unfaithful Judah, has not turned back to me with any sincerity; she has only pretended to do so," says the Lord.
Jeremiah 34:15
Recently, however, you yourselves showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own.
Matthew 13:21
But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
2 Peter 2:20
For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

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Hosea 13:3
Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.

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Jeremiah 34:11
But later they had changed their minds. They had taken back their male and female slaves that they had freed and forced them to be slaves again.

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