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 they turned back, and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceiving bow.

The rage

Woe to them! For they have fled from Me. Ruin to them! Because they have sinned against Me. Though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.

that has said, With our tongue we shall do much; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?

Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

My soul is among lions; I lie among those on fire, the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah has fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.

But I say to you that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they shall give account of it in the day of judgment.

Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest!

For that righteous one living among them, in seeing and hearing, his righteous soul was tormented from day to day with their unlawful deeds.

And a mouth speaking great things was given to it, and blasphemies. And authority was given to it to continue forty-two months.

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They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of My offerings, and eat it; but Jehovah does not receive them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

So says the Lord Jehovah: You shall drink of your sister's cup deep and large; you shall be laughed to scorn and mocked; for it holds much.

And when they entered the nations where they went, they even profaned My holy name by saying to them, These are the people of the Jehovah, and they are gone out of His land.

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But afterward they turned and caused the slaves and slave women whom they had let go free, to return! And they subjected them for slaves and slave women.