Hosea 9:6

New American Bible - revised edition

When they flee from the devastation, Egypt will gather them, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will overgrow their silver treasures, and thorns, their tents.

Cross References

Hosea 10:8

The high places of Aven will be destroyed, the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will cry out to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall upon us!”

Isaiah 5:6

Yes, I will make it a ruin: it shall not be pruned or hoed, but will be overgrown with thorns and briers; I will command the clouds not to rain upon it.

Hosea 9:3

They will not dwell in the Lord’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat unclean food.

Hosea 8:13

They love sacrifice, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

Hosea 7:16

They have again become useless, they have been like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongues; thus they shall be mocked in the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 7:23

On that day every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver shall become briers and thorns.

Hosea 11:11

Out of Egypt they shall come trembling, like birds, like doves, from the land of Assyria; And I will resettle them in their homes, oracle of the Lord.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Ruin to them, for they have rebelled against me! Though I wished to redeem them, they spoke lies against me.

Isaiah 34:13

Its castles shall be overgrown with thorns, its fortresses with thistles and briers. It shall become an abode for jackals, a haunt for ostriches.

Isaiah 32:13

For the soil of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers; For all the joyful houses, the exultant city.

Isaiah 27:12

On that day, The Lord shall beat out grain from the channel of the Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you shall be gleaned one by one, children of Israel.

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan have become fools, the princes of Memphis have been deceived. The chiefs of its tribes have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 11:11

On that day, The Lord shall again take it in hand to reclaim the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria and Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, and Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the isles of the sea.

Proverbs 24:31

It was all overgrown with thistles; its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall broken down.

Psalm 107:34

Fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its people.

2 Kings 13:7

No army was left to Jehoahaz, except fifty horses with ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, since the king of Aram had destroyed them and trampled them like dust.

1 Samuel 13:6

When the soldiers saw they were in danger because the army was hardpressed, they hid themselves in caves, thickets, rocks, caverns, and cisterns.

Jeremiah 2:16

Yes, the people of Memphis and Tahpanhes shave the crown of your head.

Jeremiah 42:22

Have no doubt about this: you shall die by the sword, famine, and disease in the place where you want to go and live.

Jeremiah 44:1

The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Judahites who were living in Egypt, those living in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in Upper Egypt:

Jeremiah 46:14

Proclaim in Egypt, announce in Migdol, announce in Memphis and Tahpanhes! Say: Fall in, get ready, the sword has devoured your neighbors.

Jeremiah 46:19

Pack your bags for exile, enthroned daughter Egypt; Memphis shall become a wasteland, an empty ruin.

Ezekiel 30:13

Thus says the Lord God: I will destroy idols, and put an end to images in Memphis. There will never again be a prince over the land of Egypt. Instead, I will spread fear throughout the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 30:16

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

Hosea 2:6

I will have no pity on her children, for they are children of prostitution.

Hosea 7:11

Ephraim is like a dove, silly and senseless; They call upon Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Zephaniah 1:11

Wail, O inhabitants of Maktesh! for all the merchants are destroyed, all who weigh out silver, done away with.

Leviticus 26:33

And you I will scatter among the nations at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted.

Jeremiah 44:12

I will take away the remnant of Judah who insisted on going to the land of Egypt to live there; in the land of Egypt they shall meet their end. They shall fall by the sword or be consumed by hunger. From the least to the greatest, they shall die by sword or hunger; they shall become a malediction, a horror, a curse, a reproach.

Jeremiah 44:13

Thus I will punish those who live in Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem, with sword, hunger, and disease,