Hosea 11:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ The sword rages in their cities; it consumes their oracle priests and devours because of their schemes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And the sword shall rage against and fall upon their cities and shall consume the bars of their gates and shall make an end [of their defenses], because of their own counsels and devices.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

Common English Bible

⁶ The sword will strike wildly in their cities; it will consume the bars of their gates and will take everything because of their schemes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The sword has begun in his cities, and it will consume his elect and devour their heads.

Hosea 11:6 Cross References

Hosea 13:16

Samaria shall bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Hosea 10:14

therefore the tumult of war shall rise against your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

Hosea 10:6

The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.

Malachi 4:1

See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Micah 5:11

and I will cut off the cities of your land and destroy all your strongholds;

Ezekiel 20:47

say to the forest of the Negeb: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God: I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.

Jeremiah 5:17

They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall destroy with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

Isaiah 30:1

Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord, who carry out a plan but not mine; who make an alliance but against my will, adding sin to sin;

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; the calves graze there; there they lie down and strip its branches.

Isaiah 18:5

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he will hew away.

Isaiah 9:14

So the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day—

Psalm 106:43

Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes and were brought low through their iniquity.

Psalm 106:39

Thus they became unclean by their acts and prostituted themselves in their doings.

Deuteronomy 32:25

In the street the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers terror for young man and woman alike, nursing child and old gray head.

Deuteronomy 28:52

It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout your land; it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout the land that the Lord your God has given you.

Leviticus 26:33

And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.

Leviticus 26:31

I will lay your cities waste, will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.

Jeremiah 50:35

A sword against the Chaldeans, says the Lord, and against the inhabitants of Babylon and against her officials and her sages!

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; guidance is no more, and her prophets obtain no vision from the Lord.

Hosea 4:16

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

Hosea 4:17

Ephraim is joined to idols— let him alone.

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has sworn by himself (says the Lord, the God of hosts): I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds, and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring the sword against you, executing vengeance for the covenant, and if you withdraw into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into enemy hands.