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Hosea 9:4

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4 They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they please him: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for their soul, it shall not enter into the house of the Lord.

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Snare

  

In Exodus 10:7, Luke 21:35, this signifies to be held captive by one's own evil. (Arcana Coelestia 7653)

In Exodus 23:33, this signifies the enticement and deception of evils. (Arcana Coelestia 9348)

(References: Arcana Coelestia 10641)

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Ezekiel 19:2-4

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2 and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

3 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.