zSee Ezek. 33:2
afCited Matt. 10:36
Isaiah 59:12
12For our transgressions are multiplied before you,and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us,
and we know our iniquities:
Jeremiah 9:2-6
2 ▼▼Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
Oh that I had in the deserta travelers’ lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all badulterers,
a company of ctreacherous men.
3 dThey bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong ▼
▼Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
in the land;for they proceed from evil to evil,
fand they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 gLet everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every hbrother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor igoes about as a slanderer.
5Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
6Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
jthey refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
Hosea 5:1
Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah
1 kHear this, O priests!Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For the judgment is for you;
for lyou have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread upon mTabor.
Hosea 6:10
10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;nEphraim’s whoredom is there; oIsrael is defiled.
Hosea 11:12
12 ▼▼Ch 12:1 in Hebrew
Ephraim qhas surrounded me with lies,and the house of Israel with deceit,
but Judah still walks with God
and is faithful to the Holy One.
Hosea 12:1
1Ephraim feeds on the windand pursues rthe east wind all day long;
they multiply sfalsehood and violence;
tthey make a covenant with Assyria,
and uoil is carried to Egypt.
Micah 7:3-7
3 vTheir hands are on what is evil, to do it well;wthe prince and xthe judge ask for a bribe,
and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;
thus they weave it together.
4The best of them is ylike a brier,
the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of zyour watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
aanow their confusion is at hand.
5 abPut no trust in a neighbor;
have no confidence in a friend;
guard acthe doors of your mouth
from her who lies in your arms; ▼
▼Hebrew bosom
6for aethe son treats the father with contempt,
the daughter rises up against her mother,
the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
afa man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
7But as for me, I will look to the Lord;
agI will wait for the God of my salvation;
my God will hear me.
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