Hosea 9:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    They shall not dwell{H3427} in Jehovah's{H3068} land;{H776} but Ephraim{H669} shall return{H7725} to Egypt,{H4714} and they shall eat{H398} unclean{H2931} food in Assyria.{H804}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    They shall not dwell{H3427}{(H8799)} in the LORD'S{H3068} land{H776}; but Ephraim{H669} shall return{H7725}{(H8804)} to Egypt{H4714}, and they shall eat{H398}{(H8799)} unclean{H2931} things in Assyria{H804}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    They wil not dwel in the LORDES londe, but Ephraim turneth agayne in to Egipte, & eateth vncleane thinges amonge the Assirians.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    They wil not dwel in the Lordes lande, but Ephraim will returne to Egypt, and they will eate vncleane things in Asshur.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    They shall not dwell in the Lordes lande, but Ephraim shall turne agayne into Egypt, and eate vncleane thinges among the Assyrians.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean [things] in Assyria.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim `to' Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus They will not remain in the LORD’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 4:13 : 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.
  • Hos 8:13 : 13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and visit their sins. They shall return to Egypt.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.
  • Jer 2:7 : 7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
  • Jer 16:18 : 18 And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled my land; they have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.
  • Dan 1:8 : 8 But Daniel resolved in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's delicacies, nor with the wine he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
  • Hos 7:11 : 11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
  • Deut 4:26 : 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land where you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
  • Deut 28:63 : 63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
  • 2 Kgs 17:6 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  • Isa 11:15-16 : 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; with his mighty wind he shall shake his hand over the River, and shall strike it in the seven streams, and make men cross over dry-shod. 16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, who are left, from Assyria, as it was for Israel in the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.
  • Lev 18:28 : 28 That the land not spew you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.
  • Lev 20:22 : 22 You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my judgments, and do them: that the land where I bring you to dwell does not vomit you out.
  • Deut 28:68 : 68 And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke unto you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
  • Josh 23:15 : 15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things have come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you, so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
  • Hos 9:6 : 6 For behold, they are gone because of destruction; Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; nettles shall possess their precious silver places; thorns shall be in their tents.
  • Hos 11:5 : 5 He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
  • Hos 11:11 : 11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria, and I will place them in their houses, says the LORD.
  • Mic 2:10 : 10 Arise and depart, for this is not your rest; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a severe destruction.
  • Acts 10:14 : 14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    78%

    4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him; their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all who eat thereof shall be polluted, for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

    5 What will you do in the appointed day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

    6 For behold, they are gone because of destruction; Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; nettles shall possess their precious silver places; thorns shall be in their tents.

  • Hos 8:13
    77%

    13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and visit their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

  • Hos 11:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

    6 And the sword shall remain on his cities, and shall destroy his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

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    77%

    2 The threshing floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.

  • Ezek 4:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with human dung in their sight.

    13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.

  • Isa 7:17
    72%

    17 The LORD shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father's house, days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

  • Isa 19:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23 In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

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  • Lam 4:15
    71%

    15 They cried to them, 'Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart, do not touch!' When they fled and wandered, they said among the nations, 'They shall no longer dwell there.'

  • Zech 10:10
    71%

    10 I will bring them back out of the land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria, and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, until no place can be found for them.

  • Hos 5:6
    70%

    6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.

  • Hos 7:11
    70%

    11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

  • Hos 9:17
    70%

    17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

  • Hos 12:1
    70%

    1 Ephraim feeds on the wind, and pursues the east wind; he daily increases lies and desolation, and they make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

  • Jer 9:15
    70%

    15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

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    70%

    13 Yet the land shall be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

  • Jer 22:27
    69%

    27 But to the land where they desire to return, there shall they not return.

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    69%

    11 Which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, The land unto which you go to possess it is an unclean land with the filthiness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

  • Hos 11:11
    69%

    11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria, and I will place them in their houses, says the LORD.

  • Lev 26:38
    69%

    38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

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    19 And as for my flock, they eat what you have trodden with your feet; and they drink what you have fouled with your feet.

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    69%

    9 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

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    69%

    18 And they shall come there, and they shall take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.

  • Hos 8:8-9
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    69%

    8 Israel is swallowed up; now they shall be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which is no pleasure.

    9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers.

  • Hos 5:4
    69%

    4 They will not direct their deeds to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitution is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

  • Jer 42:14
    68%

    14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

  • Hos 10:6
    68%

    6 It shall also be carried to Assyria as a gift to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

  • Jer 42:17
    68%

    17 So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

  • Isa 5:17
    68%

    17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

  • Mic 6:14
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    14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

  • Jer 50:19
    68%

    19 And I will bring Israel again to his dwelling place, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.

  • Isa 11:16
    68%

    16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, who are left, from Assyria, as it was for Israel in the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.

  • Ezek 29:14
    68%

    14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a lowly kingdom.

  • Lev 22:25
    68%

    25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall you offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes are in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

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    68%

    8 Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

  • Hos 12:9
    68%

    9 But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt, will yet make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.

  • Hos 4:10
    67%

    10 For they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase, because they have ceased taking heed to the LORD.

  • Jer 44:12-13
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    12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

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    67%

    12 Therefore I will be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

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