Hosea 11:6
and the sword shall turn about in his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.
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Leviticus 26:31And I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries; and I will not smell your sweet odours.
Deuteronomy 28:52And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
Psalms 80:11It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.
Psalms 106:43Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked [him] by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.
Isaiah 18:5For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-knives, and take away [and] cut down the branches.
Isaiah 30:1Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make leagues, but not by my Spirit, that they may heap sin upon sin;
Matthew Henry on Hosea 11:2-8
God's Goodness to Israel; The Ingratitude of Israel; God's Displeasure with Israel. ( b. c. 730.) 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat… Read the whole commentary →