Hosea 13:15

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Hosea 13:13–16 · Berean Standard Bible

13 Labor pains come upon him, but he is an unwise son. When the time arrives, he fails to present himself at the opening of the womb.

14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

15 Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.

16 Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

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Genesis 41:52

And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 48:19

But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

Genesis 49:22

Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.

Deuteronomy 33:17

His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Hosea 4:19

The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.

Psalms 1:4

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Isaiah 41:16

You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;

Ezekiel 17:10

Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”

Ezekiel 19:12

But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.

Hosea 9:11

Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

Job 18:16

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Psalms 109:13

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Isaiah 14:21

Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

Daniel 11:8

He will take even their gods captive to Egypt, with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold. For some years he will stay away from the king of the North,

Nahum 2:9

“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.