Hosea 9:6

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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Even if you escape destruction from Assyria, Egypt will conquer you, and Memphis will bury you. Nettles will take over your treasures of silver; thistles will invade your ruined homes.

Context of Hosea 9:6

4They will not pour out wine offerings to the Lord, nor will their sacrifices please him. Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat them will be unclean. This food will be for themselves; it will not come into the temple of the Lord. 5What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals, on the feast days of the Lord? 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. 7The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired person a maniac. 8The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

Hosea 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 28:63Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
• 1 Samuel 13:6When the Israelites saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in pits and cisterns.
• 2 Kings 13:7Nothing had been left of the army of Jehoahaz except fifty horsemen, ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed the rest and made them like the dust at threshing time.
• Hosea 7:13Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak about me falsely.
• Hosea 9:3They will not remain in the Lord’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
• Hosea 7:16They do not turn to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of their insolent words. For this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
• Hosea 8:13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to me, and though they eat the meat, the Lord is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their wickedness and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
• Hosea 11:11They will come from Egypt, trembling like sparrows, from Assyria, fluttering like doves. I will settle them in their homes,” declares the Lord.
• Isaiah 11:11In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean.
• Isaiah 27:12In that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one.
• Zechariah 10:10I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon, and there will not be room enough for them.
• Hosea 10:8The high places of wickedness will be destroyed— it is the sin of Israel. Thorns and thistles will grow up and cover their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
• Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.
• Proverbs 24:31thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.
• Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”
• Isaiah 7:23In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers 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

Topics related to Hosea 9:6

• Backsliders
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In the dictionaries

• Egypt
• Memphis
• Bramble
• Cornfloor
• Deeply
• Depart
• Mad
• Miscarrying
• Nettle
• Noph

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