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Bible in Basic English
And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.
New American Standard Bible
And will demolish
And
King James Version
And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
Holman Bible
it will destroy and devour the bars of his gates,
because of their schemes.
International Standard Version
The sword will fall on their cities, consuming and devouring their fortified gates, despite their planning.
A Conservative Version
And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.
American Standard Version
And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour them , because of their own counsels.
Amplified
The sword will whirl against and fall on their cities,
And will demolish the bars of their gates and fortifications
And will consume them because of their counsels.
Darby Translation
and the sword shall turn about in his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
Julia Smith Translation
And the sword was polished in his cities, and it consumed his branches, and devoured from their counsels.
King James 2000
And the sword shall rage against his cities, and shall consume his districts, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] sword rages in his cities; it consumes his false prophets and devours because of their plans.
Modern King James verseion
And the sword shall remain on his cities, and shall destroy his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore shall the sword begin in their cities, the store that they have laid up shall be destroyed and eaten up: and that because of their own imaginations.
NET Bible
A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.
New Heart English Bible
The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans.
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore shall the sword, rage, in his cities, and make an end of his multitudes, and consume them, - because of their counsels.
Webster
And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
World English Bible
The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans.
Youngs Literal Translation
Grievous hath been the sword in his cities, And it hath ended his bars, and consumed -- from their own counsels.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 11:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Will Have Compassion
5 He will go back to the land of Egypt and the Assyrian will be his king, because they would not come back to me. 6 And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs. 7 My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.
Cross References
Hosea 13:16
Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.
Hosea 10:6
And they will take it to Assyria and give it to the great king; shame will come on Ephraim, and Israel will be shamed because of its image.
Hosea 10:14
So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.
Leviticus 26:31
And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;
Leviticus 26:33
And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.
Deuteronomy 28:52
Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 32:25
Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.
Psalm 80:11-16
It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
Psalm 106:39
So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.
Psalm 106:43
Again and again he made them free; but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.
Isaiah 9:14
For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.
Isaiah 18:5
For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.
Isaiah 27:10
For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.
Isaiah 30:1
Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
Jeremiah 5:17
They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.
Ezekiel 15:2-7
Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?
Ezekiel 20:47
And say to the woodland of the South, Give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said: See, I will have a fire lighted in you, for the destruction of every green tree in you and every dry tree: the flaming flame will not be put out, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.
Micah 5:11
I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:
Malachi 4:1
For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.