Hosea 7:12

When they go, I will spread my net over them, 1 I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. 1 I will punish them 1 in their flocking together. 1

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In The King James Version

When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

In Context

11Ephraim is like a dove, gullible and without sense, 1 calling out to Egypt, 1 then flying to Assyria.

13Woe to them! 1 For they have strayed from me. 1 Devastation is coming to them! 1 They have rebelled against me! 1 I would have rescued them, 1 but they spoke lies against me. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:14But if you will not listen to me, and will not obey all these commandments,

Deuteronomy 29:22The generation to come, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, will speak when they see the plagues on this land and the diseases with which Yahweh has made it sick—

Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— 1 you grew fat, you were too fat, and you had eaten your fill— 1 he abandoned the God who made him, 1 and he rejected the Rock of his salvation. 1

Job 19:6then you should know that God has done wrong to me 1 and has caught me in his net. 1

Jeremiah 16:16Behold! I will send for many fishermen—this is Yahweh's declaration—so they will fish the people out. After this I will send for many hunters so they will hunt for them among all the mountains and hills, and in rock crevices.

Ezekiel 12:13I will spread out my net over him and he will be caught in my snare; then I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, but he will not see it. He will die there.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:9-16

The Crimes of the People; Infatuation of Ephraim; Ephraim's Obstinate Rebellion; Ephraim's Hypocrisy. ( b. c. 750.) 8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. 10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this. 11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to… Read the whole commentary →

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