God’s Word Translation
Hosea 9:6
6Even if they escape without being destroyed, Egypt will capture them and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will grow over their silver treasures. Thorns will grow over their tents.
Hosea 9:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)Even if they escape from destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers, and thorns will overrun their tents.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For behold, they are going away from destruction; but Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For indeed they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver; Thorns shall be in their tents.
Context of Hosea 9:6
4They won’t pour wine offerings to the Lord, and their sacrifices won’t please him. Their sacrifices will be like the food that mourners eat. All who eat this food will be unclean. Their food will only satisfy their hunger. It will not be brought ⌞as an offering⌟ to the Lord’s temple. 5What will they do on the day of an appointed festival or on the Lord’s festival days? Even if they escape without being destroyed, Egypt will capture them and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will grow over their silver treasures. Thorns will grow over their tents. 7The time for them to be punished will come. The time for them to pay for their sins will come. ⌞When this happens,⌟ Israel will know it. ⌞They think that⌟ prophets are fools and that spiritual people are crazy. They have sinned a lot, and they are very hostile. 8Prophets are God’s watchmen over Ephraim. Yet, traps are set on every prophet’s path, and people are hostile in the temple of their God.
Read all of Hosea 9Hosea 9:6 word by word
כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֤ה הָֽלְכוּ֙ מִשֹּׁ֔ד מִצְרַ֥יִם תְּקַבְּצֵ֖ם מֹ֣ף תְּקַבְּרֵ֑ם מַחְמַ֣ד לְכַסְפָּ֗ם קִמּוֹשׂ֙ יִֽירָשֵׁ֔ם ח֖וֹחַ בְּאָהֳלֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- For, lo, they are goneהָלַךְhâlak · to go: wentH1980
- because of destructionשֹׁדshôd shôd · violenceH7701
- Egyptמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714
- shall gather them upקָבַץqâbats · to gatherH6908
- Memphisמֹףmôph · MemphisH4644
- shall buryקָבַרqâbar · to buryH6912
- them: the pleasantמַחְמָדmachmâd · desireH4261
- for their silverכֶּ֫סֶףkeseph · silver: moneyH3701
- nettlesקִמּוֹשׂqimmôsh qîymôsh · nettleH7057
- shall possessיָרַשׁyârash yârêsh · to possess: possessH3423
- them: thornsחוֹחַchôach · thistleH2336
- in their tabernaclesאֹ֫הֶל'ôhel · tentH168
Cross-references for Hosea 9:6
- Deuteronomy 28:63At one time the Lord was more than glad to make you prosperous and numerous. Now the Lord will be more than glad to destroy you and wipe you out. You will be torn out of the land you’re about to enter and take possession of.
- 1 Samuel 13:6When the Israelites saw they were in trouble because the army was hard-pressed, they hid in caves, in thorny thickets, among rocks, in pits, and in cisterns.
- 2 Kings 13:7Jehoahaz had no army left except for 50 horses, 10 chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers because the king of Aram had destroyed the rest. He had made them like dust that people trample.
- Hosea 7:13“How horrible it will be for these people. They have run away from me. They must be destroyed because they’ve rebelled against me. I want to reclaim them, but they tell lies about me.
- Hosea 9:3The people of Ephraim won’t stay in the Lord’s land. They will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
- Hosea 7:16They don’t return to the Most High. They are like a defective bow. Their officials will die in battle because they curse. The people in Egypt will ridicule them for this.
- Hosea 8:13They offer sacrifices to me and eat the meat of sacrifices, but I, the Lord, do not accept these sacrifices. Now I will remember their wickedness and punish them because of their sins. They will go back to Egypt.
- Hosea 11:11They will come trembling like birds from Egypt and like doves from Assyria. I will settle them in their own homes,” declares the Lord.
- Isaiah 11:11At that time the Lord will use his power again to recover what remains of his people in Assyria, Upper and Lower Egypt, Sudan, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath, and the islands of the sea.
- Isaiah 27:12On that day the Lord will begin his threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates River to the brook of Egypt. People of Israel, you will be gathered one by one.
- Zechariah 10:10I will bring them back from Egypt. I will gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and to Lebanon, and there won’t be enough room for them.”
- Hosea 10:8The illegal worship sites of Aven will be destroyed. Israel sins there. Thorns and weeds will grow over those altars. People will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
- Psalms 107:34and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.
- Proverbs 24:31I saw that it was all overgrown with thistles. The ground was covered with weeds, and its stone fence was torn down.
- Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland. It will never be pruned or hoed. Thorns and weeds will grow in it, and I will command the clouds not to rain on it.
- Isaiah 7:23On that day, in every place where there were 1,000 vines (worth 1,000 pieces of silver), there will be briars and thorns.
Commentaries on Hosea 9:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6For, lo, they are gone - Many of them fled to Egypt to avoid the destruction; but they went there only to die. Memphis - Now Cairo, or Kahira, found them graves. The pleasant places for their silver - The fine estates or villas which they had purchased by their money, being now neglected and uninhabited, are covered with nettles; and even in their tabernacles, thorns and brambles of different kinds grow. These are the fullest marks of utter desolation.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6For lo, they are gone because of destruction - They had fled, for fear of destruction, to destruction. For fear of the destruction from Assyria, they were fled away and gone to Egypt, hoping, doubtless, to find there some temporary refuge, until the Assyrian invasion should have swept by. But, as befalls those who flee from God, they fell into more certain destruction. Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them - They had fled singly, in making…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6Even if some Israelites escaped the Assyrian exile by fleeing to Egypt, God’s judgment would still reach them there.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. because of destruction--to escape from the devastation of their country. Egypt shall gather them up--that is, into its sepulchres (Jr 8:2; Eze 29:5). Instead of returning to Palestine, they should die in Egypt. Memphis--famed as a necropolis. the pleasant places for their silver--that is, their desired treasuries for their money. Or, "whatever precious thing they have of silver" [Maurer]. nettles--the sign of desolation (Is 34:13).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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