Isa 44:20, Hos 12:1 | ESV | STEP | He feeds on ashes ; a deluded heart has led him astray , and he cannot deliver himself or say , Is there not a lie in my right hand ?

Isaiah 44:20

20 ^aHe feeds on ^bashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not ^ca lie in my right hand?”

Hosea 12:1

1 Ephraim feeds on the wind
and pursues ^dthe east wind all day long;
they multiply ^efalsehood and violence;
^fthey make a covenant with Assyria,
and ^goil is carried to Egypt.