Hosea 10:8

Retribution for Israel’s Sin · Hosea 10:1–15
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Translations

Modern
The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
Traditional
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Literal
The high places of Aven will be destroyed, and the sin of Israel; the thorn and thistle will come up over their altars, and they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” And to the hills, “Fall on us!”
Latin
Et disperdentur excelsa idoli, peccatum Israël; lappa et tribulus ascendet super aras eorum: et dicent montibus: Operite nos, et collibus: Cadite super nos.

Original

Hebrew
English
The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

Notes

The Israelites who survived the disaster would only be able to cry out to the mountains and hills, Cover us! … Fall on us!

Events

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Places

Bethel: Important city in Israel, associated with Abraham and Jacob

Glossary

Aven High Place Hosea, Book of Thistle, Thorn

Topics

Aven: Beth-Aven Calves of Jeroboam: Predictions Respecting: Destruction Despondency: General Scriptures Concerning High Places: Aven Thistle: A Noxious Plant