Hosea 7:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Hosea 7:12 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hosea 7:12 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 26:14If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
- Deuteronomy 28:15If, 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 29:22Then 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.
- Deuteronomy 31:16And 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 I have made with them.
- Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
- 2 Kings 17:13Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
- Job 19:6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12For 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.
- Jeremiah 16:16But 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.
- Jeremiah 44:4Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
- Ezekiel 12:13But 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.
- Ezekiel 17:20I 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 32:3This 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.
- Hosea 5:9Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.
- Revelation 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).