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Hosea 9:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For even if they flee from devastation, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Thistles will take possession of their precious silver; thorns will invade their tents.

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The high places  of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed; thorns and thistles will grow over their altars. They will say to the mountains,  ‘Cover us! ’ and to the hills, ‘Fall on us! ’


I will make it a wasteland. It will not be pruned or weeded; thorns and briars will grow up. I will also give orders to the clouds that rain should not fall on it.


They will not stay in the land of the  Lord. Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food  in Assyria.


Though they offer sacrificial gifts  , and eat the flesh, the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt.


They turn, but not to what is above; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of their insolent tongue. They will be ridiculed for this in the land of Egypt.


And on that day every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briars.


They will be roused like birds from Egypt and like doves  from the land of Assyria. Then I will settle them in their homes. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


Woe to them,  for they fled from me; destruction to them, for they rebelled against me! Though I want to redeem them, they speak lies against me.


Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns; her fortified cities, with thistles and briars. She will become a dwelling for jackals, an abode  for ostriches.


for the ground of my people growing thorns and briars, indeed, for every joyous house in the jubilant city.


On that day the Lord will thresh corn from the River Euphrates as far as the Wadi of Egypt, and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.


The princes of Zoan have been fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. Her tribal chieftains have led Egypt astray.


On that day  the Lord will extend his hand a second time to recover the remnant of his people who survive #– #from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coasts and islands of the west.


Thistles had come up everywhere, weeds covered the ground, and the stone wall was ruined.


Jehoahaz did not have an army left, except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them,  making them like dust at threshing.


The men of Israel saw that they were in trouble because the troops were in a difficult situation. They hid in caves, in thickets, among rocks, and in holes and cisterns.


The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have also broken your skull.


Now therefore, know for certain that by the sword, famine, and plague you will die in the place where you desired to go to stay for a while.’


This is the word that came to Jeremiah for all the Jews living in the land of Egypt #– #at Migdol,  Tahpanhes,  Memphis,  and in the land of Pathros:


Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol! Proclaim it in Memphis and in Tahpanhes! Say, ‘Take positions! Prepare yourself, for the sword devours all around you.’


Get your bags ready for exile, inhabitant of Daughter Egypt! For Memphis will become a desolation, uninhabited ruins.


‘ “This is what the Lord God says: I will destroy the worthless idols and put an end to the false gods in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt. And I will instil fear in that land.


I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be breached, and Memphis will face foes in broad daylight.


Therefore, this is what I will do: I will block her  way  with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so that she cannot find her paths.


So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove; they call to Egypt,  and they go to Assyria.


Wail, you residents of the Hollow, for all the merchants  will be silenced; all those loaded with silver will be cut off.


But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.


And I will take away the remnant of Judah,  those who have set their face to go to the land of Egypt to stay there. All of them will meet their end in the land of Egypt. They will fall by the sword; they will meet their end by famine. From the least to the greatest,  they will die by the sword and by famine. Then they will become an example for cursing, scorn,  execration, and disgrace.


I will punish those living in the land of Egypt just as I punished Jerusalem by sword, famine, and plague.





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