Hosea 12:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The LORD also brings a charge against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.”
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“The LORD also brings a charge against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Jehovah hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And a controversy hath Jehovah with Judah, To lay a charge on Jacob according to his ways, According to his doings He returneth to him.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hosea 12:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Kings 17:4But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.
- 2 Kings 17:19and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
- Job 15:2“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
- Psalms 78:36But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
- Ecclesiastes 5:15As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
- Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
- Isaiah 8:7the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates— the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
- Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
- Isaiah 10:12So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
- Isaiah 24:21In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
- Isaiah 30:6This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
- Isaiah 59:18So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.
- Jeremiah 3:8She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
- Jeremiah 25:31The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,’” declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 23:11Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
- Ezekiel 23:31Because you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.’
- Hosea 2:13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
- Hosea 4:1Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
- Hosea 4:9And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
- Hosea 7:1When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.
- Hosea 7:11So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove— calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
- Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
- Hosea 8:10Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
- Hosea 8:13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
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