Hosea 7:15

Though I have trained and strengthened their arms, yet do they devise evil against Me.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

In Context

14And they have not cried unto Me with their heart, though they wail upon their beds; they assemble themselves for corn and wine, they rebel against Me.

16They return, but not upwards; they are become 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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Cross References

2 Kings 13:5And the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, so that they went out from under the hand of the Arameans; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.

2 Kings 14:25He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which He spoke by the hand of His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.

Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?

Psalms 94:12Happy is the man whom Thou instructest, O LORD, and teachest out of Thy law;

Proverbs 3:11My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither spurn thou His correction;

Hosea 13:9It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against Me, against thy help.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:9-16

The Crimes of the People; Infatuation of Ephraim; Ephraim's Obstinate Rebellion; Ephraim's Hypocrisy. ( b. c. 750.) 8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. 10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this. 11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to… Read the whole commentary →

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