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Yet the number of the sons of Israel
Will be like the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And in the place
Where it is said to them,
“You are not My people,”
It will be said to them,
“You are the sons of the living God.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingDivine FavourSons Of GodUncountableBelievers As Sons Of GodSand And GravelLiving For GodThe Seaisrael

Or I will strip her naked
And expose her as on the day when she was born.
I will also make her like a wilderness,
Make her like desert land
And slay her with thirst.

Verse ConceptsBabiesGod Stripping PeopleDry PlacesGod Might Kill His PeopleNew BornDeserts Used Figuratively

Yet let no one find fault, and let none offer reproof;
For your people are like those who contend with the priest.

Verse ConceptsAvoid Quarrelsstrivingaccusationspriests

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.

Verse ConceptsBad CounselDangers Of IgnorancedecisionsPoverty, SpiritualRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRetributionAdvice, Rejecting God's AdviceWisdom, Source Of HumanValuing KnowledgeGod ForgettingForsaking God's ThingsDeposingIgnorance of GodRejectionignorance

And it will be, like people, like priest;
So I will punish them for their ways
And repay them for their deeds.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesLike People In CharacterGod Will RequitePunishment of the The WickedRewards Of Ritual

Since Israel is stubborn
Like a stubborn heifer,
Can the Lord now pasture them
Like a lamb in a large field?

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdObstinacy Against GodHeifersBackslidingBacksliders

The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary;
On them I will pour out My wrath like water.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityProperty, LandResistanceStonesLandmarksGod Will Be Angrywaterfalls

Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim
And like rottenness to the house of Judah.

Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsPeople RottingPeople Eaten By Worm

For I will be like a lion to Ephraim
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away,
I will carry away, and there will be none to deliver.

Verse ConceptsRescuePeople Torn To PiecesGod Like A LionLike CreaturesNo One Can Save

“So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

Verse ConceptsWaterWeather, God's Sovereignty OverHoly Spirit, Types OfThe SunSetting OutSure KnowledgeLatenessSunRenewalAcknowledgedspringtimestriving

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your loyalty is like a morning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.

Verse ConceptsdewLoyaltyMistMorningUnreliabilityWeather, As God's JudgmentLukewarmnessInstabilityWhat Does God Do?

But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant;
There they have dealt treacherously against Me.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersParticipation, In SinLike People In CharacterBreaking The CovenantUnfaithful

They are all adulterers,
Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Verse ConceptsDoughBakingOvensWicked Described AsCessationLeavenedBaking BreadKneading DoughThose Who Committed Adultery

For their hearts are like an oven
As they approach their plotting;
Their anger smolders all night,
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansIn The MorningActing All NightUnnamed People Angry With Others

All of them are hot like an oven,
And they consume their rulers;
All their kings have fallen.
None of them calls on Me.

Verse ConceptsComplacencyHeatHot ThingsAttitudes Towards KingsNot Praying

When they go, I will spread My net over them;
I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
I will chastise them in accordance with the proclamation to their assembly.

Verse ConceptsChastisementNetsBirds, Figurative UseAbasing PeopleGod Trapping

They turn, but not upward,
They are like a deceitful bow;
Their princes will fall by the sword
Because of the insolence of their tongue.
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsFaultsBow And Arrows, Illustrations OfRidicule, Nature OfAccuracyKilled With The Sword

Put the trumpet to your lips!
Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My law.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodTrumpetWingsBirds, Types Of BirdsEaglesTrumpets For SignallingBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's Law

Israel is swallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a vessel in which no one delights.

Verse ConceptsSwallowingForeigners Included Among The People

For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like a wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has hired lovers.

Verse ConceptsActing AloneWild DonkeysNorthern Kingdom Of Israel

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations!
For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on every threshing floor.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodSpiritual HarlotryIngratitudeMarriage, Between God And His PeopleServants, Working Conditions OfUnfaithfulness, To GodLack Of RejoicingWages Of A ProstituteThe Great Prostitute

They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
Their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their bread will be like mourners’ bread;
All who eat of it will be defiled,
For their bread will be for themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsMournersPollutionsRepulsive FoodMourning DeathMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsNot Pleasing God

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame,
And they became as detestable as that which they loved.

Verse ConceptsFig treeBaal Worship, HistoryGrapesBaal Worship, Nature OfAbominations, Idolatry IsDisgustFirst ActionsFinding PeopleThings Like PeopleLoving EvilPotential Of Fruit

Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.

Verse ConceptsKilling Sons And DaughtersGod's People Planted

They speak mere words,
With worthless oaths they make covenants;
And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Verse ConceptsBad LanguageInjustice, Examples OfLawsuitsPerjuryFurrowsPoisonTreatyWeedsCursingSwearing Oaths FalselyMere TalkNo Justice

Samaria will be cut off with her king
Like a stick on the surface of the water.

Verse ConceptsA Little Bit

How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I surrender you, O Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
My heart is turned over within Me,
All My compassions are kindled.

Verse ConceptsGod, Repentance OfHeart, DivineMind, Of GodReinstatementRepentance, Nature OfGod Is UnchangeableGod Not ForsakingLike Bad PeopleEquivalent PeopleSurrenderEmotions

They will walk after the Lord,
He will roar like a lion;
Indeed He will roar
And His sons will come trembling from the west.

Verse ConceptsTremblingWestOut Of The WestFollowing GodGroups TremblingGod Like A LionLike Creatures

They will come trembling like birds from Egypt
And like doves from the land of Assyria;
And I will settle them in their houses, declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsdovesGroups Trembling

Is there iniquity in Gilead?
Surely they are worthless.
In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls,
Yes, their altars are like the stone heaps
Beside the furrows of the field.

Verse ConceptsFurrowsUseless IdolsCairnsSacrificing Cattle

Therefore they will be like the morning cloud
And like dew which soon disappears,
Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor
And like smoke from a chimney.

Verse ConceptsdewChaffMistMorningSmokeThreshing FloorWeather, As God's JudgmentWicked Described AsPassing AwayLight As ChaffsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

So I will be like a lion to them;
Like a leopard I will lie in wait by the wayside.

Verse ConceptsLeopardGod Like A LionGod WaitingLike Creatures

I will encounter them like a bear robbed of her cubs,
And I will tear open their chests;
There I will also devour them like a lioness,
As a wild beast would tear them.

Verse ConceptsPeople Torn To PiecesThe Act Of OpeningWild Animals DevouringGod Like A LionLike CreaturesBereavement

I will be like the dew to Israel;
He will blossom like the lily,
And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

Verse ConceptsdewPlantsHoly Spirit, Types OfRosesChange And Growthfriendliness

His shoots will sprout,
And his beauty will be like the olive tree
And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingBeauty, Temporal Nature OfBeauty, In NatureFragranceOlive Trees

Those who live in his shadow
Will again raise grain,
And they will blossom like the vine.
His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Verse ConceptsGrainShadowsVinesRemembering Peoplerevival

O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after you.
I am like a luxuriant cypress;
From Me comes your fruit.

Verse ConceptsFir TreesUnfading LifeThe Source Of FruitGod Will AnswerWhat Have We In Common?God KeepsChristmas Treefruitfulness