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Hosea 7:9

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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

Strangers {H2114} have devoured {H398} his strength {H3581}, and he knoweth {H3045} it not: yea, gray hairs {H7872} are here and there {H2236} upon him, yet he knoweth {H3045} not.

Foreigners have eaten up his strength, but he doesn't know it; yes, gray hairs appear on him here and there, but he doesn't know it.

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not.

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Cross-References

  • Hosea 8:7 (5 votes)

    For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

  • Isaiah 42:22 (3 votes)

    But this [is] a people robbed and spoiled; [they are] all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

  • Isaiah 42:25 (3 votes)

    Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid [it] not to heart.

  • Proverbs 23:35 (2 votes)

    They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

  • 2 Kings 13:3 (2 votes)

    And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all [their] days.

  • 2 Kings 13:7 (2 votes)

    Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

  • 2 Kings 13:22 (2 votes)

    But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.