Hosea 7:12 References
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When they go, I will aspread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will bchastise them in accordance with the proclamation to their assembly.
b Leviticus 26:14-39, Deuteronomy 28:15
Leviticus 26
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if, instead, you areject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so bbreak My covenant,
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I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a asudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the bsoul to pine away; also, cyou will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.
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'I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and athose who hate you will rule over you, and byou will flee when no one is pursuing you.
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'If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you aseven times more for your sins.
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'I will also abreak down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.
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'aYour strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
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'If then, you aact with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you bseven times according to your sins.
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'aI will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that byour roads lie deserted.
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then I will aact with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you bseven times for your sins.
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'I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute avengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send bpestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.
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'aWhen I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will beat and not be satisfied.
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'Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,
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then aI will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins.
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'I then awill destroy your high places, and cut down your bincense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.
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'I will lay awaste your cities as well and will make your bsanctuaries desolate, and I will not csmell your soothing aromas.
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'You, however, I awill scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.
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'aThen the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
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'All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.
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'As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring aweakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee as though from the sword, and they will fall.
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'aThey will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand up before your enemies.
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'aSo those of you who may be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them.