Hosea 7:11
“One may ask: Why was Ephraim compared with a dove and not with other birds? The other birds hurry to protect their offspring even at the risk of life, and when they see a bird of prey, snake, raven or crow approaching their nest, they fly to and fro, and attack with their beak, and wound with their claws, and with a c…”
Source: Septuagint
11And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.
Preparing…
Preparing…
Preparing…
9Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew it not; and gray hairs came upon him, and he knew it not.
10And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.
— Hosea 7:11 —
12Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their coming affliction.
13Woe to them! for they have started aside from me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against me.