Hosea 11:6
The sword has been grievous in his cities, || And it has ended his bars, and consumed—from their own counsels.
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Leviticus 26:31and I have made your cities a ruin, and have made your sanctuaries desolate, and I do not smell your refreshing fragrance;
Deuteronomy 28:52And it has laid siege to you in all your gates until your walls come down—the high and the fortified ones in which you are trusting, in all your land; indeed, it has laid siege to you in all your gates, in all your land which your God YHWH has given to you.
Psalms 80:11It sends forth its branches to the sea, || And its shoots to the river.
Psalms 106:43He delivers them many times, || And they rebel in their counsel, || And they are brought low in their iniquity.
Isaiah 18:5For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, || And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, || Then [One] has cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, || And the branches He has turned aside, cut down.
Isaiah 30:1Woe [to] apostate sons, || A declaration of YHWH! To do counsel, and not from Me, || And to spread out a covering, and not of My Spirit, || So as to add sin to 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 →