Hosea 14:8

“Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.”

"Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found." - Hosea 14:8
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Hosea 14:8 - "Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found."
Hosea 8:14 - "For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof."
Hosea 8:8 - "Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure."
Hosea 14:5-6 – "I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily."
Hosea 6:8 - "Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood."
Hosea 4:8 - "They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity."
Hosea 8:3 - "Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him."
Hosea 7:8 - "Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned."
Hosea 14:1 - "O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity."
Hosea 2:14 - "¶ Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her."
Hosea 1:8 - "¶ Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son."
Hosea 8:2 - "Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee."
Hosea 14:4 - "¶ I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him."
Hosea 14:6 - "His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon."
Hosea 8:11 - "Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin."
Hosea 8:6 - "For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces."
Hosea 8:9 - "For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers."
Hosea 14:5 - "I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon."
Hosea 8:12 - "I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing."
Hosea 2:14-15 – "Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her."
Hosea 9:14 - "Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts."
Hosea 2:14-15 – "Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her."
Hosea 9:8 - "The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God."
"Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure." - Hosea 8:8
Hosea 5:8 - "Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin."
"I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon." - Hosea 14:5
Hosea 7:14 - "And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me."
"I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon." - Hosea 14:5
Hosea 14:7 - "They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon."