Hosea 9:6
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.
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.
Note destruction: Heb. spoil
Note the…: or, their silver shall be desired, the nettle, etc.: Heb. the desire
For, behold, when they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.
For, lo, they are gone away from destruction; yet Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- they
- Deuteronomy 28:63, 64; 1 Samuel 13:6; 2 Kings 13:7
- destruction
- Heb. spoil.
- Hosea 7:13
- Egypt
- Hosea 9:3; Hosea 7:16; Hosea 8:13; Hosea 11:11; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 27:12; Zechariah 10:10, 11
- the pleasant places for their silver, nettles
- or, theirsilver shall be desired, the nettle shall, etc. Heb. the desire of.
- Hosea 10:8; Psalm 107:34; Proverbs 24:31; Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 7:23; Isaiah 32:13; Isaiah 34:13