“For, behold, when they flee destruction,Egypt will gather them up.Memphis will bury them.Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver.Thorns will be in their tents.”
Hosea 9:6 (WEB)
Context Reading
4They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh,neither will they be pleasing to him.Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;all who eat of it will be polluted;for their bread will be for their appetite.It will not come into Yahweh’s house. 5What will you do in the day of solemn assembly,and in the day of the feast of Yahweh? 6For, behold, when they flee destruction,Egypt will gather them up.Memphis will bury them.Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver.Thorns will be in their tents. 7The days of visitation have come.The days of reckoning have come.Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,and the man who is inspired to be insane,because of the abundance of your sins,and because your hostility is great. 8A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths,and hostility in the house of his God.