Hosea 10:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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 they say to the mountains and to the 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 away from destruction; [yet] Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.
• 1 Kgs 12:28-30 : 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he 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 Beth-el, 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 men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily 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 Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
• Hos 10:5 : 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over 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, As thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; 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 Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of 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 in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had 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 purged Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about. 7 And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
• Hos 10:2 : 2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.
• 1 Kgs 14:16 : 16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he hath sinned, and wherewith he hath made Israel to sin.
• 1 Kgs 13:2 : 2 And he cried against the altar by the word of Jehovah, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a son shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall they burn upon thee.
• Isa 34:13 : 13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
• Hos 4:13 : 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides 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 Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah liveth.
• Hos 5:8 : 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven; behind thee, O Benjamin.
• Rev 9:6 : 6 And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth 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, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.