Hosea 7:12
When they go, I will spread my net on them.I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
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Leviticus 26:14"'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;
Deuteronomy 29:22The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick;
Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.You have grown fat.You have grown thick.You have become sleek.Then he forsook God who made him,and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Job 19:6know now that God has subverted me,and has surrounded me with his net.
Jeremiah 16:16Behold, I will send for many fishermen," says the Lord, "and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
Ezekiel 12:13My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
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 →