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!”
Note Or of wickedness; Aven is a reference to Beth-aven (a derogatory term for Bethel); see verse 5.
Note Cited in Luke 23:30; see also Revelation 6:16.
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.
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!”
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- high places
- Hosea 10:5; Hosea 4:15; Hosea 5:8
- the sin
- Deuteronomy 9:21; 1 Kings 12:28–30; 1 Kings 13:34; 1 Kings 14:16; Amos 8:14; Micah 1:5, 13
- the thorn
- Hosea 9:6; Isaiah 32:13; Isaiah 34:13
- their altars
- 1 Kings 13:2; 2 Kings 23:15; 2 Chronicles 31:1; 2 Chronicles 34:5–7
- they shall
- Isaiah 2:19; Luke 23:30; Revelation 6:16; Revelation 9:6