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Hosea 8:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.” "

Hosea 8:14

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12 I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.

13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”

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Amos 2:5

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"but I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”"

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Zechariah 12:6

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"In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem."

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Jeremiah 9:11

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"“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”"

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Jeremiah 34:22

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"Behold, I will command,” says the LORD, “and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”"

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Isaiah 10:17

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"The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day."

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Isaiah 17:9

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"In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation."

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Hosea 8:1

"“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over the LORD’s house, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law."

Hosea 8:2

"They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you!’"

Hosea 8:3

"Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him."

Hosea 8:4

"They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off."

Hosea 8:5

"Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?"

Hosea 8:6

"For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces."

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