Hosea 9:6

For, lo, they are gone because of destruction; 1 Mitzrayim shall gather them up, 1 Memphis shall bury them; 1 nettles shall possess their valuables of kesef; 1 thorns shall be in their tents. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5What will ye do in the Yom Mo'ed, 1 and in the Yom Chag Hashem? 1

7The days of pekudah (visitation for divine punishment) are come, 1 the yamim of recompence are come; 1 Yisroel shall know it. 1 The navi is a fool, 1 the ish haruach (spiritual man) is meshuga, 1 for the multitude of thine iniquity 1 and great hatred. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:63And it shall come to pass, that as Hashem rejoiced over you to do you good, to multiply you, so Hashem will rejoice over you to make you shmad, to bring you to nothing; and ye shall be plucked from off the adamah whither thou goest to possess it.

2 Kings 13:7For he + 13:7 Melech Aram did leave of the army to Yehoachaz but 50 parashim, and 10 merkavot, and 10,000 foot soldiers; for Melech Aram had destroyed them, and had made them like the aphar for trampling.

Proverbs 24:31And, hinei, it was all grown over with thorns, 1 and charullim (nettles) had covered the surface thereof, 1 and the stone wall thereof was broken down. 1

Isaiah 7:23And it shall come to pass in that yom, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand gefen worth a thousand kesef, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

Isaiah 19:13The sarim of Tzoan are become fools, 1 the sarim of Noph are deceived; 1 they have also led Mitzrayim astray, 1 even they that are the mainstay of the tribes thereof. 1

Isaiah 32:13Upon the admat Ami (land of My People) 1 shall come up kotz (thorns) and briers; 1 indeed, upon all the batim (houses) of joy 1 in the city of merriment; 1

Matthew Henry on Hosea 9:2-7

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every corn-floor. 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not dwell in the Lord 's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord , neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto… Read the whole commentary →

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