Hosea 7:9 “Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair…”

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

World English Bible

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.

American Standard Version

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not.

Geneva Bible 1599

Strangers haue deuoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray heares are here and there vpon him, yet he knoweth not.

Darby Translation

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth [it] not.

Young's Literal Translation

Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled [itself] on him, And he hath not known.

Bible in Basic English

Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.

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Cross references

“devoured”

Hosea 8:7 Isaiah 42:22–25 2 Kings 13:3–7 2 Kings 13:22 Proverbs 23:35 2 Kings 15:19

Hosea 8:7 · BSB

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Isaiah 42:22–25 · BSB

But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

2 Kings 13:3–7 · BSB

So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them continually into the hands of Hazael king of Aram and his son Ben-hadad.

2 Kings 13:22 · BSB

And Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel throughout the reign of Jehoahaz.

Proverbs 23:35 · BSB

“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”

2 Kings 15:19 · BSB

Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.

Also

Isaiah 1:7

Isaiah 1:7 · BSB

Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.

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

In context

8Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.

10Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.

Read Hosea 7