Hosea 9:6

Good News Translation (US Version)

When the disaster comes and the people are scattered, the Egyptians will gather them up—gather them for burial there at Memphis! Their treasures of silver and the places where their homes once stood will be overgrown with weeds and thorn bushes.

Cross References

Hosea 10:8

The hilltop shrines of Aven, where the people of Israel worship idols, will be destroyed. Thorns and weeds will grow up over their altars. The people will call out to the mountains, “Hide us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”

Isaiah 5:6

I will let it be overgrown with weeds. I will not trim the vines or hoe the ground; instead, I will let briers and thorns cover it. I will even forbid the clouds to let rain fall on it.”

Hosea 9:3

The people of Israel will not remain in the Lord's land, but will have to go back to Egypt and will have to eat forbidden food in Assyria.

Hosea 8:13

They offer sacrifices to me and eat the meat of the sacrifices. But I, the Lord, am not pleased with them, and now I will remember their sin and punish them for it; I will send them back to Egypt!

Hosea 7:16

They keep on turning away from me to a god that is powerless. They are as unreliable as a crooked bow. Because their leaders talk arrogantly, they will die a violent death, and the Egyptians will laugh.”

Isaiah 7:23

“When that time comes, the fine vineyards, each with a thousand vines and each worth a thousand pieces of silver, will be overgrown with thorn bushes and briers.

Hosea 11:11

They will come from Egypt, as swiftly as birds, and from Assyria, like doves. I will bring them to their homes again. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Hosea 7:13

“They are doomed! They have left me and rebelled against me. They will be destroyed. I wanted to save them, but their worship of me was false.

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns and thistles will grow up in all the palaces and walled towns, and jackals and owls will live in them.

Isaiah 32:13

and thorn bushes and briers are growing on my people's land. Weep for all the houses where people were happy and for the city that was full of life.

Isaiah 27:12

On that day, from the Euphrates to the Egyptian border, the Lord will gather his people one by one, as threshing separates the wheat from the chaff.

Isaiah 19:13

The leaders of Zoan and Memphis are fools. They were supposed to lead the nation, but they have misled it.

Isaiah 11:11

When that day comes, the Lord will once again use his power and bring back home those of his people who are left in Assyria and Egypt, in the lands of Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Babylonia, and Hamath, and in the coastlands and on the islands of the sea.

Proverbs 24:31

They were full of thorn bushes and overgrown with weeds. The stone wall around them had fallen down.

Psalm 107:34

He made rich soil become a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

2 Kings 13:7

Jehoahaz had no armed forces left except fifty cavalry troops, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Syria had destroyed the rest, trampling them down like dust.

1 Samuel 13:6

Then they launched a strong attack against the Israelites, putting them in a desperate situation. Some of the Israelites hid in caves and holes or among the rocks or in pits and wells;

Jeremiah 2:16

Yes, the people of Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked his skull.

Jeremiah 42:22

So then, remember this: you will die in war or of starvation or disease in the land where you want to go and live.”

Jeremiah 44:1

The Lord spoke to me concerning all the Israelites living in Egypt, in the cities of Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in the southern part of the country.

Jeremiah 46:14

“Proclaim it in the towns of Egypt, in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes: ‘Get ready to defend yourselves; all you have will be destroyed in war!

Jeremiah 46:19

Get ready to be taken prisoner, you people of Egypt! Memphis will be made a desert, a ruin where no one lives.

Ezekiel 30:13

The Sovereign Lord says, “I will destroy the idols and the false gods in Memphis. There will be no one to rule Egypt, and I will terrify all the people.

Ezekiel 30:16

I will set fire to Egypt, and Pelusium will be in agony. The walls of Thebes will be broken down, and the city will be flooded.

Hosea 2:6

So I am going to fence her in with thorn bushes and build a wall to block her way.

Hosea 7:11

Israel flits around like a silly pigeon; first her people call on Egypt for help, and then they run to Assyria!

Zephaniah 1:11

Wail and cry when you hear this, you that live in the lower part of the city, because all the merchants will be dead!

Leviticus 26:33

I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.

Jeremiah 44:12

As for the people of Judah who are left and are determined to go and live in Egypt, I will see to it that all of them are destroyed. All of them, great and small, will die in Egypt, either in war or of starvation. They will be a horrifying sight; people will make fun of them and use their name as a curse.

Jeremiah 44:13

I will punish those who live in Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem—with war, starvation, and disease.