Hosea 10:8

King James Version 1611 (Original)

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנִשְׁמְד֞וּ בָּמ֣וֹת אָ֗וֶן חַטַּאת֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל ק֣וֹץ וְדַרְדַּ֔ר יַעֲלֶ֖ה עַל־מִזְבְּחוֹתָ֑ם וְאָמְר֤וּ לֶֽהָרִים֙ כַּסּ֔וּנוּ וְלַגְּבָע֖וֹת נִפְל֥וּ עָלֵֽינוּ׃

Transliteration

And wənišmədû bāmôt ʾāwen, ḥaṭṭaʾt Yiśrāʾēl; qôṣ wədardar yaʿăleh upon their mizbəḥôtām; and they wəʾāmərû to the mountains, 'kassûnû,' and to the hills, 'niplû upon us.'

Grammar Details

• *wənišmədû*: conjunction + verb, Niphal, perfect, 3rd person, plural - and they will be destroyed
• *bāmôt*: noun, feminine, plural construct - high places
• *ʾāwen*: noun, masculine, singular - wickedness/vanity
• *ḥaṭṭaʾt*: noun, feminine, singular construct - sin
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *qôṣ*: noun, masculine, singular - thorn
• *wədardar*: conjunction + noun, masculine, singular - and thistle
• *yaʿăleh*: verb, Qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular - it will grow/come up
• *mizbəḥôtām*: noun, masculine, plural with 3rd person, masculine, plural suffix - their altars
• *wəʾāmərû*: conjunction + verb, Qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural - and they will say
• *kassûnû*: verb, Piel, imperative, masculine, plural with 1st person, plural suffix - cover us
• *niplû*: verb, Qal, imperative, masculine, plural - fall

Word Meanings

• *bāmôt*: high places/altars on heights/shrines

Referenced Verses

• Luke 23:30 : 30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
• Rev 6:16 : 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
• Hos 9:6 : 6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
• 1 Kgs 12:28-30 : 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
• Isa 2:19 : 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
• Isa 32:13 : 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
• 1 Kgs 13:34 : 34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
• 2 Kgs 23:15 : 15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
• Hos 10:5 : 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
• Amos 8:14 : 14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
• Mic 1:5 : 5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
• Mic 1:13 : 13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
• 2 Chr 31:1 : 1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
• 2 Chr 34:5-7 : 5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. 7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
• Hos 10:2 : 2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
• 1 Kgs 14:16 : 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
• 1 Kgs 13:2 : 2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
• Isa 34:13 : 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
• Hos 4:13 : 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
• Hos 4:15 : 15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
• Hos 5:8 : 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
• Rev 9:6 : 6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
• Deut 9:21 : 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.