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Because their leaders talk arrogantly, they will die a violent death, and the Egyptians will laugh." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/hosea/7-16.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/hosea/7-16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/hosea/7-16.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/hosea/1.htm">Hosea</a> > <a href="/gntd/hosea/7.htm">Chapter 7</a> > Verse 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/7-15.htm" title="Hosea 7:15">◄</a> Hosea 7:16 <a href="../hosea/8-1.htm" title="Hosea 8:1">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/hosea/7.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/hosea/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />They keep on turning away from me to a god that is powerless. They are as unreliable as a crooked bow. Because their leaders talk arrogantly, they will die a violent death, and the Egyptians will laugh." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />They turn to that which does not profit; they have become like a defective bow; their officials shall fall by the sword because of the rage of their tongue. So much for their babbling in the land of Egypt.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/hosea/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />and refuse to obey. They are more useless than a crooked arrow. Their leaders will die in war for saying foolish things. Egyptians will laugh at them. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />They have again become useless, they have been like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongues; thus they shall be mocked in the land of Egypt. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/hosea/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.</p><p class="hdg">return.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/6-4.htm">Hosea 6:4</a> What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/8-14.htm">Hosea 8:14</a> And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/11-7.htm">Hosea 11:7</a> And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/78-37.htm">Psalm 78:37</a> But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/3-10.htm">Jeremiah 3:10</a> And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not returned to me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/8-13.htm">Luke 8:13</a> Now they upon the rock are they who when they hear receive the word with joy: and these have no roots: for they believe for a while and in time of temptation they fall away.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/11-24.htm">Luke 11:24-26</a> When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest: and not finding, he saith: I will return into my house whence I came out. . . . </p><p class="hdg">like.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/78-57.htm">Psalm 78:57</a> And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.</p><p class="hdg">the rage.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/7-13.htm">Hosea 7:13</a> Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be wasted because they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed them: and they have spoken lies against me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/12-4.htm">Psalm 12:4</a> Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/52-2.htm">Psalm 52:2</a> All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/57-4.htm">Psalm 57:4</a> And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/73-9.htm">Psalm 73:9</a> They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/3-8.htm">Isaiah 3:8</a> For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/18-18.htm">Jeremiah 18:18</a> And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/12-36.htm">Matthew 12:36</a> But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/3-5.htm">James 3:5</a> Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_peter/2-8.htm">2 Peter 2:8</a> For in sight and hearing he was just, dwelling among them who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/13-5.htm">Revelation 13:5</a> And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies: and power was given to him to do, two and forty months.</p><p class="hdg">this.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/8-13.htm">Hosea 8:13</a> They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/9-3.htm">Hosea 9:3,6</a> They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/23-32.htm">Ezekiel 23:32</a> Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/36-20.htm">Ezekiel 36:20</a> And when they entered among the nations whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when it was said of them: This is the people of the Lord, and they are come forth out of his land.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/hosea/7.htm">Ephraim's Iniquity</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">15</span>And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me. <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl">They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.</span><div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/12-3.htm">Psalm 12:3</a></span><br />May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/12-4.htm">Psalm 12:4</a></span><br />Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/17-10.htm">Psalm 17:10</a></span><br />They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/73-9.htm">Psalm 73:9</a></span><br />They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/78-57.htm">Psalm 78:57</a></span><br />And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/23-32.htm">Ezekiel 23:32</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../daniel/7-25.htm">Daniel 7:25</a></span><br />And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush the saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change times and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time, and times, and half a time.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/9-3.htm">Hosea 9:3</a></span><br />They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/9-6.htm">Hosea 9:6</a></span><br />For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/11-5.htm">Hosea 11:5</a></span><br />He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king: because they would not be converted.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../malachi/3-13.htm">Malachi 3:13</a></span><br />Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../malachi/3-14.htm">Malachi 3:14</a></span><br />And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? 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