Hosea 9:6

For, look, if they escape from destruction, 1 Egypt will gather them, 1 and Memphis will bury them. 1 As for their treasures of silver— 1 sharp briers will possess them, 1 and thorns will fill their tents. 1

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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 you do on the day of an appointed festival, 1 on the day of a festival for Yahweh? 1

7The days for punishment are coming; 1 the days for retribution are coming. 1 Let all Israel know these things. 1 The prophet is a fool, 1 and the inspired man is insane, 1 because of your great iniquity 1 and great hostility. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:63As Yahweh once rejoiced over you in doing you good, and in multiplying you, so he will rejoice over you in making you perish and in destroying you. You will be plucked off the land that you are going into to possess.

2 Kings 13:7The Arameans left Jehoahaz with only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the chaff at threshing time.

Proverbs 24:31Thorns had grown up everywhere, 1 the ground was covered with nettles, 1 and its stone wall was broken down. 1

Isaiah 7:23At that time, where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, 1 there will be nothing but briers and thorns. 1

Isaiah 19:13The princes of Zoan have become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have made Egypt go astray, who are the cornerstones of her tribes. + 19:13 Instead of Memphis , some versions have Noph , the Hebrew name for the same city in Egypt. 1

Isaiah 32:13The land of my people will be overgrown with thorns and briers, 1 even in all the once joyful houses in the city of revelry. 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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