Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are t
A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.
O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress;
For I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals; no longer will their names be invoked.
When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he can
“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be
I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their mu
Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all
Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put r
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the L
At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and no
So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may retu
In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper
They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in
and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwel
Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that y
“In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your
They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant w
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer