Tree of Life Version
Hosea 9:6
6Look, even if they escape the desolation, Egypt will gather them up; Memphis will bury them. And their precious silver treasures? Weeds will possess them. Thorns will be in 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 will pour no wine-offerings to Adonai— they would not be pleasing to Him. Their sacrifices will be like the bread of mourners for them. All that eat it will be defiled, for their bread is for their appetite, not coming into the House of Adonai. 5What will you do for a moed or for the day of Adonai’s feast? Look, even if they escape the desolation, Egypt will gather them up; Memphis will bury them. And their precious silver treasures? Weeds will possess them. Thorns will be in their tents. 7The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come. Let Israel know! The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad! For great is your iniquity and great the hostility. 8Ephraim is a watchman with my God, a prophet. A bird catcher’s trap is on all his paths. Hostility is in the House of his 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 28:63Now just as Adonai rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so Adonai will rejoice over you to ruin and destroy you; and you will be uprooted from the land that you are going in to possess.
- 1 Samuel 13:6When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble, because the people were hard-pressed, they hid in caves, thickets, cliffs, crevices and pits.
- 2 Kings 13:7Indeed, Jehoahaz was not left with a force of more than 50 horsemen, 10 chariots and 10,000 foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and trampled them like dust when threshing.
- Hosea 7:13Oy to them! For they strayed from Me. Devastation to them! For they rebelled against Me. Should I redeem them after they spoke lies about Me?
- Hosea 9:3They will not dwell in Adonai’s land. Instead Ephraim will return to Egypt, and eat unclean food in Assyria.
- Hosea 7:16They will turn back—only not upwards. They are like a treacherous bow. Their princes will fall by the sword because of the insolence with their tongues. This will be for their ridicule in the land of Egypt.
- Hosea 8:13Sacrifices are gifts for Me— should they sacrifice meat and then eat it? Adonai will not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sin— they will return to Egypt.
- Hosea 11:11“They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, like a dove out of the land of Assyria, and I will settle them in their houses.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
- Isaiah 11:11It will also come about in that day that my Lord will again redeem— a second time with His hand— the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
- Isaiah 27:12It will come about in that day, Adonai will thresh from the channel of the River to the Wadi of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, Bnei-Yisrael.
- Zechariah 10:10I will restore from the land of Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon till there is no room for them.
- Hosea 10:8The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel will be destroyed. Thorns and thistles will come up on their altars. And they will say to the mountains: “Cover us!” And to the hills: “Fall on us!”
- Psalms 107:34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
- Proverbs 24:31Surprisingly, it was all overgrown with thorns, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.
- Isaiah 5:6I will lay it waste: it will not be pruned or hoed, but briers and thorns will come up. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.
- Isaiah 7:23In that day it will be that every place where there were 1,000 vines worth 1,000 silver shekels will become 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
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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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