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Hosea 7:12

I will throw my bird net over them while they are flying, I will bring them down like birds in the sky; I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chastisement;   Confidence;   Nation;   Net;   Wicked (People);  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Treaty;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Discipline;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Net;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chasten, Chastisement;   Covenant;   Fowler;   Hosea;   Net;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hosea;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Birds;   Poultry;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As they are going, I will spread my net over them;I will bring them down like birds of the sky.I will discipline them in accordancewith the news that reaches their assembly.
Hebrew Names Version
When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
King James Version
When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
English Standard Version
As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.
New American Standard Bible
When they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will discipline them in accordance with the proclamation to their assembly.
New Century Version
When they go, I will catch them in a net, I will bring them down like birds from the sky; I will punish them countless times for their evil.
Amplified Bible
When they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens [into Assyrian captivity]. I will chastise them in accordance with the proclamation (prophecy) to their congregation.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But when they shal go, I will spred my net vpon them, and drawe them downe as the foules of the heauen: I will chastice them as their congregation hath heard.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them in accordance with the proclamation to their assembly.
Legacy Standard Bible
When they go, I will spread My net over them;I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.I will chastise them in accordance with the report to their congregation.
Berean Standard Bible
As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.
Contemporary English Version
But I will catch them in a net as hunters trap birds; I threatened to punish them, and indeed I will.
Complete Jewish Bible
Even as they go, I will spread my net over them; I will bring them down like birds from the sky; I will discipline them, as their assembly was told.
Darby Translation
When they go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowl of the heavens; I will chastise them, according as their assembly hath heard.
Easy-to-Read Version
They go to those countries for help, but I will trap them. I will throw my net over them, and I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will punish them for their agreements.
George Lamsa Translation
Wherever they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the air; I will chastise them according to the testimony which is heard against them.
Good News Translation
But I will spread out a net and catch them like birds as they go by. I will punish them for the evil they have done.
Lexham English Bible
Just as they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to a report to their assembly.
Literal Translation
When they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as a report to their congregation.
American Standard Version
When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
Bible in Basic English
When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Even as they go, I will spread My net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath been made to hear.
King James Version (1611)
When they shall goe, I wil spread my net vpon them, I will bring them downe as the foules of the heauen: I will chastise them as their congregation hath heard.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But whyle they be goyng here and there I shal spreade my net ouer them, and drawe them downe as the foules of the ayre: and according as they haue ben warned, so wyll I punishe them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their coming affliction.
English Revised Version
When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven: I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
World English Bible
When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne thei ben goen forth, Y schal sprede abrood on hem my net, Y schal drawe hem doun as a brid of the eir. Y schal beete hem, bi the heryng of the cumpany of hem.
Update Bible Version
When they shall go, I will spread my net on them; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
Webster's Bible Translation
When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
New King James Version
Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will chastise them According to what their congregation has heard.
New Living Translation
But as they fly about, I will throw my net over them and bring them down like a bird from the sky. I will punish them for all the evil they do.
New Life Bible
When they go, I will spread My net over them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will punish them for the sinful things they have done.
New Revised Standard
As they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will discipline them according to the report made to their assembly.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whithersoever they go, I will spread over them my net, like a bird of the heavens, will I bring them down, I will chastise them, by the time the report can reach the flock of them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them: I will bring them down as the fowl of the air, I will strike them as their congregation hath heard.
Revised Standard Version
As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will chastise them for their wicked deeds.
Young's Literal Translation
When they go I spread over them My net, As the fowl of the heavens I bring them down, I chastise them as their company hath heard.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but whyle they be goinge here and there, I shal sprede my net ouer them, & drawe them downe as ye foules of the ayre: and acordinge as they haue bene warned, so will I punysh them.

Contextual Overview

8 Ephraim has mixed itself like flour among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side. 9 Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, but he does not recognize it! His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it! 10 The arrogance of Israel testifies against him, yet they refuse to return to the Lord their God! In spite of all this they refuse to seek him! 11 Ephraim has been like a dove, easily deceived and lacking discernment. They called to Egypt for help; they turned to Assyria for protection. 12 I will throw my bird net over them while they are flying, I will bring them down like birds in the sky; I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together. 13 Woe to them! For they have fled from me! Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me! I want to deliver them, but they have lied to me. 14 They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me. 15 Although I trained and strengthened them, they plot evil against me! 16 They turn to Baal; they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will spread: Job 19:6, Jeremiah 16:16, Ezekiel 12:13, Ezekiel 17:20, Ezekiel 32:3

I will bring: Ecclesiastes 9:12

as their: Leviticus 26:14-46, Deuteronomy 28:15-68, Deuteronomy 29:22-28, Deuteronomy 31:16-29, Deuteronomy 32:15-43, 2 Kings 17:13-18, Jeremiah 44:4, Revelation 3:19

Reciprocal: Psalms 66:11 - broughtest Isaiah 30:4 - his princes Lamentations 1:13 - he hath spread

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made."
Genesis 7:17
The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
Exodus 24:18
Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.
Deuteronomy 10:10
As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The Lord listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When they shall go,.... That is, to Egypt or Assyria:

I will spread my net upon them; bring them into great straits and difficulties; perhaps the Assyrian army is meant, which was the Lord's net, guided, and directed, and spread by his providence, and according to his will, to take this silly dove in; and which enclosed them on all sides, that they could not escape; see Ezekiel 12:13. Hoshea the king of Israel was taken by the Assyrian, and bound and shut up in prison; Samaria the capital city was besieged three years, and then taken,

2 Kings 17:4;

I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; though they fly on high, soar aloft, and behave proudly, and fancy themselves out of all danger; yet, as the flying fowl, the eagle, and other birds, may be brought down to the earth by an arrow from the bow, or by some decoy so should they be brought down from their fancied safe and exalted state, and be taken in the net, and become a prey to their enemies:

I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard; what was written in the law, and in the prophets, were read and explained in the congregations of Israel on their stated days they met together on for religious worship; in which it was threatened, that if they did not observe the laws and statutes of the Lord their God, but neglected and broke them, they should be severely chastised and corrected with his sore judgments, famine, pestilence, the sword of the enemy, and captivity: and now the Lord would fulfil his word, agreeably to what had often been heard by them, but not regarded; see Leviticus 26:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When they go - (Literally, “according as” they go, in all circumstances of time or place or manner, when whithersoever or howsoever they shall go,) I “will spread My net upon them,” so as to surround and envelop them on all sides and hold them down. The “dove” soaring aloft, with speed like the storm-wind Psalms 55:6-8, is a picture of freedom, independence, impetuous, unhindered, following on its own course; weak and timid, it trusts in the skillfulness with which it guides its flight, to escape pursuit; the “net,” with its thin slight meshes, betokens how weak instruments become all-sufficient in the hands of the Almighty; the same dove, brought down from its almost viewless height, fluttering weakly, helplessly and hopelessly, under those same meshes, is a picture of that same self-dependent spirit humiliated, overwhelmed by inevitable evils, against which it impotently struggles, from which it seems to see its escape, but by which it is held as fast, as if it lay motionless in iron.

As their congregation hath heard - Manifoldly had the message of reward on obedience, and of punishment on disobedience, come to Israel. It was spread throughout the law; it fills the book of Deuteronomy; it was concentrated in the blessing and the curse on mount Ebal and Gerizim; it was put into their mouths in the song of Moses; it was inculcated by all the prophets who had already prophesied to them, and now it was being enforced on that generation by Hosea himself. Other kingdoms have fallen; but their fall, apart from Scripture, has not been the subject of prophecy. Their ruin has come mostly unexpected, either by themselves or others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 7:12. When they shall go — To those nations for help -

I will spread my net upon them — I will cause them to be taken by those in whom they trusted.

I will bring them down — They shall no sooner set off to seek this foreign help, than my net shall bring them down to the earth. The allusion to the dove, and to the mode of taking the fowls of heaven, is still carried on.

As their congregation hath heard. — As in their solemn assemblies they before have heard; in the reading of my law, and the denunciation of my wrath against idolaters.

Bishop Newcome translates: "I will chastise them when they hearken to their assembly." That is, when they take the counsel of their elders to go down to Egypt for help, and trust in the arm of the Assyrians for succour.


 
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