14 For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them. 15 Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
Hosea 5:14–15
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Jeremiah 18:16–18
16 They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads. 17 I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.” 18 Then so…
Micah 3:3–5
3 You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.” 4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His fa…
Jeremiah 9:15–17
15 Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink. 16 I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword af…
Hosea 13:7–9
7 So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path. 8 Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart. 9 You are destroyed,…
Jeremiah 11:10–12
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Book of Jubilees 1:11–13
11 And I will send witnesses unto them, that I may witness against them, but they will not hear, and will slay the witnesses also, and they will persecute those who seek the law, and they will abrogate and change everything so as to work evil before My eyes. (JUB) 12 And… (JUB) 13 … (JUB)
Ezekiel 8:17–18
17 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the br…
Proverbs 1:27–29
27 when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you. 28 Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me. 29 For they hated knowledge and chose not to fe…
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