Hosea 7:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.”
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“Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled <FI>itself<Fi> on him, And he hath not known.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hosea 7:9 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Kings 13:3So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them continually into the hands of Hazael king of Aram and his son Ben-hadad.
- 2 Kings 13:22And Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel throughout the reign of Jehoahaz.
- 2 Kings 15:19Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.
- Proverbs 23:35“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
- Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.
- Isaiah 42:22But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
- Isaiah 57:1The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.
- Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
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