Hosea 9:6

New Living Translation

Even if you escape destruction from Assyria, Egypt will conquer you, and Memphis will bury you. Nettles will take over your treasures of silver; thistles will invade your ruined homes.

Cross References

2 Kings 13:7

Finally, Jehoahaz’s army was reduced to 50 charioteers, 10 chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers. The king of Aram had killed the others, trampling them like dust under his feet.

Psalm 107:34

He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.

Proverbs 24:31

I saw that it was overgrown with nettles. It was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down.

Isaiah 11:11

In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to bring back the remnant of his people— those who remain in Assyria and northern Egypt; in southern Egypt, Ethiopia, and Elam; in Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastlands.

Isaiah 19:13

The officials of Zoan are fools, and the officials of Memphis are deluded. The leaders of the people have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 27:12

Yet the time will come when the Lord will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them—from the Euphrates River in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west.

Isaiah 32:13

For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers. Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns will overrun its palaces; nettles and thistles will grow in its forts. The ruins will become a haunt for jackals and a home for owls.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.

Isaiah 7:23

In that day the lush vineyards, now worth 1,000 pieces of silver, will become patches of briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 2:16

Egyptians, marching from their cities of Memphis and Tahpanhes, have destroyed Israel’s glory and power.

Jeremiah 42:22

So you can be sure that you will die from war, famine, and disease in Egypt, where you insist on going.”

Jeremiah 44:1

This is the message Jeremiah received concerning the Judeans living in northern Egypt in the cities of Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in southern Egypt as well:

Jeremiah 44:12

I will take this remnant of Judah—those who were determined to come here and live in Egypt—and I will consume them. They will fall here in Egypt, killed by war and famine. All will die, from the least to the greatest. They will be an object of damnation, horror, cursing, and mockery.

Jeremiah 44:13

I will punish them in Egypt just as I punished them in Jerusalem, by war, famine, and disease.

Jeremiah 46:14

“Shout it out in Egypt! Publish it in the cities of Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes! Mobilize for battle, for the sword will devour everyone around you.

Jeremiah 46:19

Pack up! Get ready to leave for exile, you citizens of Egypt! The city of Memphis will be destroyed, without a single inhabitant.

Ezekiel 30:13

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will smash the idols of Egypt and the images at Memphis. There will be no rulers left in Egypt; terror will sweep the land.

Ezekiel 30:16

Yes, I will set fire to all Egypt! Pelusium will be racked with pain; Thebes will be torn apart; Memphis will live in constant terror.

Hosea 10:8

And the pagan shrines of Aven, the place of Israel’s sin, will crumble. Thorns and thistles will grow up around their altars. They will beg the mountains, “Bury us!” and plead with the hills, “Fall on us!”

Hosea 11:11

Like a flock of birds, they will come from Egypt. Trembling like doves, they will return from Assyria. And I will bring them home again,” says the Lord.

Hosea 2:6

“For this reason I will fence her in with thornbushes. I will block her path with a wall to make her lose her way.

Hosea 7:11

“The people of Israel have become like silly, witless doves, first calling to Egypt, then flying to Assyria for help.

Hosea 7:13

“What sorrow awaits those who have deserted me! Let them die, for they have rebelled against me. I wanted to redeem them, but they have told lies about me.

Hosea 7:16

They look everywhere except to the Most High. They are as useless as a crooked bow. Their leaders will be killed by their enemies because of their insolence toward me. Then the people of Egypt will laugh at them.

Hosea 8:13

The people love to offer sacrifices to me, feasting on the meat, but I do not accept their sacrifices. I will hold my people accountable for their sins, and I will punish them. They will return to Egypt.

Hosea 9:3

You may no longer stay here in the Lord’s land. Instead, you will return to Egypt, and in Assyria you will eat food that is ceremonially unclean.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins.

Zephaniah 1:11

Wail in sorrow, all you who live in the market area, for all the merchants and traders will be destroyed.

1 Samuel 13:6

The men of Israel saw what a tight spot they were in; and because they were hard pressed by the enemy, they tried to hide in caves, thickets, rocks, holes, and cisterns.