know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.
Hosea 7:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 As they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will discipline them according to the report made to their assembly. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens. I will chastise them according to the announcement [or prediction made] to their congregation [in the Scriptures]. [Lev. 26:14-39.] American Standard Version (1901) When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. Common English Bible As they go, I will spread my net over them; like birds in the sky, I will bring them down; I will judge them according to the report made to their assembly. Catholic Public Domain Version And when they will set out, I will spread my net over them. I will pull them down like the birds of the sky; I will cut them down in accordance with the reports of their meetings. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them: I will bring them down as the fowl of the air, I will strike them as their congregation hath heard. |
know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.
For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.
I am now sending for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall catch them, and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.
Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, “I beg you not to do this abominable thing that I hate!”
I will spread my net over him, and he shall be caught in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.
I will spread my net over him, and he shall be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treason he has committed against me.
Thus says the Lord God: In an assembly of many peoples I will throw my net over you, and I will haul you up in my dragnet.
Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.
I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.