Scriptural Confirmations # 75
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In that day I will visit, and make an end of the kingdom of Israel (Hosea 1:4-5).
The days of visitation will come, the days of retribution will come, He will visit their sins (Hosea 9:7, 9).
They shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us (Hosea 10:8).
They shall be laid waste as in the day of battle (Hosea 10:14).
The controversy of Jehovah with Judah, to visit upon Jacob, according to his ways, according to his doings will He recompense him (Hosea 12:3).
The day of Jehovah is great and very terrible, who then shall sustain it (Joel 2:11; 3:4).
A day of battle and a day of tempest (Amos 1:14).
Then the powerful one shall not deliver his soul, and the strong of heart among the heroes shall flee away naked in that day (Amos 2:14, 16).
He will visit upon them all their iniquities, in that day (Amos 3:2, 14).
If they dig into hell, if they ascend to the heavens or in the depth of the sea, etc., thence will I draw them out (Amos 9:2-6).
Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah; to what end is the day of Jehovah for you? it is a day of darkness and not of light. Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? and thick darkness and no brightness in it? (Amos 5:18, 20.)
The end is come upon my people Israel. Wherefore the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day: there shall be many a dead body (Amos 8:2-3).
It is called the day of destruction, the day of straitness (Obadiah 12-14, 18, 18).
The day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations; as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy retribution shall return upon thy head. But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness (Obadiah 14, 15, 17, 17).
Hosea 12
1
Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
2
Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.
3
In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.
4
Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
5
even Yahweh, the God of Armies; Yahweh is his name of renown!
6
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
7
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
8
Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."
9
"But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.
10
I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
11
If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
12
Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
13
By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
14
Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt.
