Found 291 Results for: Tribe Of Ephraim
Never silly dove so lost her wits as this Ephraim, now calling on Egypt, now turning to Assyria for aid! (Hosea 7, 11)
So many the altars Ephraim has, and they shall increase his guilt, none of them but shall increase his guilt; (Hosea 8, 11)
dispeopled, now, the Lord’s territory, Ephraim back in Egypt again, or tasting, among the Assyrians, unhallowed food. (Hosea 9, 3)
prophet of thine, watchman of thine, Ephraim, is a snare at every turn, luring thee to thy ruin, and at God’s decree; he stands there in God’s house, a plague to thee. (Hosea 9, 8)
Light as bird on bough, Ephraim’s glory has come and gone; womb is none that breeds, or, breeding, bears; (Hosea 9, 11)
Ephraim’s land, so fair a garden, as I look out over it towards Tyre! And must Ephraim rear her sons for the slaughter-house?✻ (Hosea 9, 13)
On Ephraim blight has fallen; withered the root now, wizened the fruit; beget they, doom of death is on their offspring, so dearly loved. (Hosea 9, 16)
carried off, now, into Assyria, for the pleasure of a ruthless king; fooled is Ephraim, Israel’s hopes have played him false. (Hosea 10, 6)
Heifer that has learned the welcome task of the threshing-floor, such is Ephraim; that sleek neck of hers I have spared till now; now she is to be harnessed; when Juda goes a-ploughing, Jacob it shall be that breaks the clods for him.✻ (Hosea 10, 11)
What, Ephraim, must I abandon thee? Must I keep Israel under watch and ward? Can I let thee go the way of Adama, share the doom of Seboim? All at once my heart misgives me, and from its embers pity revives. (Hosea 11, 8)
How should I wreak my vengeance, of Ephraim take full toll? God am I, not a man in the midst of you, the Holy One, that may not enter those city walls;✻ (Hosea 11, 9)
Ephraim so false, Israel so treacherous, all about me! But Juda governs his folk with God to aid him; Juda takes part with the holy ones, loyal yet.✻ (Hosea 11, 12)
