Hosea 4:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

The land

Nahum 1:4

With the beasts

General references

Genesis 7:21

Ezekiel 11:6

Joel 1:18

Bible References

The land

The earth shall be heavy and decay: The face of the earth shall perish and fall away, the proud people of the world shall come to naught.

For thus hath the LORD said, "The whole land shall be desolate, yet will I not then have done.

The field shall be wasted, the land shall be in a miserable cause: for the corn shall be destroyed, the sweet wine shall come to confusion, and the oil utterly desolate.

And he said, "The LORD shall roar out of Zion, and show his voice from Jerusalem: so that the pastures of the shepherds shall be in a miserable case, and the top of Carmel dried up.

"'If no,' sayeth the LORD God, the God of hosts, 'there shall be mourning in all streets. Yea, they shall say in every street: alas, alas. They shall call the husbandman to lamentation; and such as can mourn, to mourning.

Shall not the land tremble; and all they that dwell therein, mourn for this? Shall not their destruction come upon them like a water stream; and flow over them, as the flood of Egypt?

When he reproveth the sea, he drieth it up, and turneth all the floods to dry land. Bashan is desolate, Carmel and the pleasure of Lebanon wasteth away.

With the beasts

I looked about me, and there was nobody, and all the birds of the air were away.

How long shall the land mourn, and all the herbs of the field perish, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The cattle and the birds are gone, yet say they, "Tush, God will not destroy us utterly."

The very fishes in the sea, the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field, and all the men that are upon the earth shall tremble for fear of me. The hills also shall be turned upside down, the stairs of stone shall fall, and all walls shall sink to the ground:

I will gather up man and beast: I will gather up the fowls in the air and the fish in the sea, to the great decay of the wicked: and will utterly destroy the men out of the land, sayeth the LORD.

General references

And all flesh that moved on the earth, both birds, cattle and beasts, perished; with all that crept on the earth, and all men:

Many a one have ye murdered in this city, and filled the streets full of the slain.

O what a fighting make the cattle? The bullocks are very evil liking, because they have no pasture: and the sheep are famished away.