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Hosea 6:4

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.

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ASV

O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early away.

KJV

O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מָ֤הmahwhat?H4100 →
אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־'e.'e.seh-will I doH6213 →
לְּךָ֙le.Khato you
אֶפְרַ֔יִם'ef.Ra.yimO EphraimH669 →
מָ֥הmahwhat?H4100 →
אֶעֱשֶׂה־'e.'e.seh-will I doH6213 →
לְּךָ֖le.Khato you
יְהוּדָ֑הye.hu.DahO JudahH3063 →
וְחַסְדְּכֶם֙ve.chas.de.Khemand loyalty yourH2617 →
כַּֽעֲנַן־ka.'a.nan-[is] like a cloud ofH6051 →
בֹּ֔קֶרBo.ker[the] morningH1242 →
וְכַטַּ֖לve.kha.Taland like <the> dewH2919 →
מַשְׁכִּ֥יםmash.Kimrising earlyH7925 →
הֹלֵֽךְ׃ho.LekhgoingH1980 →

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Psalms 78:34–37When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.Hosea 11:8How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.Luke 8:13The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.Deuteronomy 32:2Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.Psalms 106:12–13Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.2 Peter 2:20–22If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.Luke 13:7–9So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’Matthew 13:21But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.2 Chronicles 26:5He sought God throughout the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. And as long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.Luke 19:41–42As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over itExodus 8:15When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.Deuteronomy 33:17His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”Isaiah 28:4The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.Deuteronomy 9:12And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”Jeremiah 5:7“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.Jeremiah 34:15Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.

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