Hosea 7:16
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They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.

return.

Hosea 6:4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.

Hosea 8:14 And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

Hosea 11:7 And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.

Psalm 78:37 But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.

Jeremiah 3:10 And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not returned to me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.

Luke 8:13 Now they upon the rock are they who when they hear receive the word with joy: and these have no roots: for they believe for a while and in time of temptation they fall away.

Luke 11:24-26 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest: and not finding, he saith: I will return into my house whence I came out. . . .

like.

Psalm 78:57 And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

the rage.

Hosea 7:13 Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be wasted because they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed them: and they have spoken lies against me.

Psalm 12:4 Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?

Psalm 52:2 All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Psalm 57:4 And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 73:9 They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty.

Jeremiah 18:18 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

Matthew 12:36 But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.

James 3:5 Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.

2 Peter 2:8 For in sight and hearing he was just, dwelling among them who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.

Revelation 13:5 And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies: and power was given to him to do, two and forty months.

this.

Hosea 8:13 They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

Hosea 9:3,6 They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians. . . .

Ezekiel 23:32 Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much.

Ezekiel 36:20 And when they entered among the nations whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when it was said of them: This is the people of the Lord, and they are come forth out of his land.

Context
Ephraim's Iniquity
15And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me. 16They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.
Cross References
Psalm 12:3
May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.

Psalm 12:4
Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?

Psalm 17:10
They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.

Psalm 73:9
They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

Psalm 78:57
And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

Ezekiel 23:32
Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much.

Daniel 7:25
And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush the saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change times and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time, and times, and half a time.

Hosea 9:3
They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians.

Hosea 9:6
For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.

Hosea 11:5
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king: because they would not be converted.

Malachi 3:13
Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.

Malachi 3:14
And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

Lexicon
They turn,
יָשׁ֣וּבוּ ׀ (yā·šū·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

but not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

to the Most High;
עָ֗ל (‘āl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5920: The top, the highest, aloft, to Jehovah

they are
הָיוּ֙ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

like a faulty
רְמִיָּ֔ה (rə·mî·yāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7423: Remissness, treachery

bow.
כְּקֶ֣שֶׁת (kə·qe·šeṯ)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7198: A bow, for, shooting, the iris

Their leaders
שָׂרֵיהֶ֖ם (śā·rê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8269: Chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince

will fall
יִפְּל֥וּ (yip·pə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5307: To fall, lie

by the sword
בַחֶ֛רֶב (ḇa·ḥe·reḇ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

for the cursing
מִזַּ֣עַם (miz·za·‘am)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2195: Froth at the mouth, fury

of their tongue;
לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם (lə·šō·w·nām)
Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3956: The tongue

for this
ז֥וֹ (zōw)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2097: This, that

they will be ridiculed
לַעְגָּ֖ם (la‘·gām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3933: A mocking, derision

in the land
בְּאֶ֥רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

of Egypt.
מִצְרָֽיִם׃ (miṣ·rā·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa


Additional Translations
They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.They return, but not to the most High: they are 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.

They return, but not to him that is on high; they are 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.

They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt.

They return, [but] not to the [Most] High: they are 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.

They return, but not to him that is on high; they are 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.

They return, but not to the most High: they are 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.

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

They turn back -- not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This is their derision in the land of Egypt!
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