Hosea 7:16

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Summary

They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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Psalm 78:57

The rage

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Jeremiah 34:11

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But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers;
They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

The rage

Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me!

Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me!
I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.

Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”

Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

My soul is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe forth fire,
Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows
And their tongue a sharp sword.

They have set their mouth against the heavens,
And their tongue parades through the earth.

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,
Because their

speech and their actions are against the Lord,

To rebel against His glorious presence.

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment.

So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things.

See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!

(for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),

There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.

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As for My sacrificial gifts,
They sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the Lord has taken no delight in them.
Now He will remember their iniquity,
And punish them for their sins;
They will return to Egypt.

They will not remain in the Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to Egypt,
And in Assyria they will eat unclean food.

Thus says the Lord God,
‘You will drink your sister’s cup,
Which is deep and wide.

You will be laughed at and held in derision;

It contains much.

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord; yet they have come out of His land.’

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But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection for male servants and for female servants.