Hosea 9:6

Translations

Modern

For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.

Traditional

For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

Literal

For behold, they go away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up, and Memphis will bury them! And the preciousness of their silver—the thistles will possess them, thorns in their tents.

Latin

Ecce enim profecti sunt a vastitate: Ægyptus congregabit eos; Memphis sepeliet eos: desiderabile argentum eorum urtica hæreditabit, lappa in tabernaculis eorum.

Original

Hebrew

English

For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.

Notes

Hosea 9:6

Even if some Israelites escaped the Assyrian exile by fleeing to Egypt, God’s judgment would still reach them there.

Events

Prophecies of Hosea

Related verses

Hosea 10:8
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!”
Isaiah 5:6
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
Isaiah 7:23
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
Hosea 7:16
They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
Hosea 9:3
They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Hosea 8:13
Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
Proverbs 24:31
Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
Isaiah 27:12
In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.
Isaiah 32:13
…and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
Psalm 107:34
…and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Isaiah 34:13
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
1 Samuel 13:6
Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.

Places

Egypt: Ancient nation; Israelites enslaved there; plagues and Exodus Memphis: An important city in ancient Egypt

Glossary

Hosea, Book of Memphis Nettle

Topics

Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Memphis: A Celebrated City of Egypt Nettles: Figurative

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