Hosea 7:12 “As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down lik…”

Hosea 7:12

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

But when they shall 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.

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.

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.

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.

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Cross references

“I will spread”

Ezekiel 12:13 Job 19:6 Jeremiah 16:16 Ezekiel 17:20 Ezekiel 32:3

Ezekiel 12:13 · BSB

But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

Job 19:6 · BSB

then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

Jeremiah 16:16 · BSB

But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks…

Ezekiel 17:20 · BSB

I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.

Ezekiel 32:3 · BSB

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.

“I will bring”

Deuteronomy 28:15–68 Deuteronomy 29:22–28 Ecclesiastes 9:12 Leviticus 26:14–46 Deuteronomy 31:16–29 Deuteronomy 32:15–43

Deuteronomy 28:15–68 · BSB

If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Deuteronomy 29:22–28 · BSB

Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

Ecclesiastes 9:12 · BSB

For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.

Leviticus 26:14–46 · BSB

If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,

Deuteronomy 31:16–29 · BSB

And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant…

Deuteronomy 32:15–43 · BSB

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove— calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

13Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.

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