7Samaria and her king float away, like a twig on the water.


In Context

4 They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

5 The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.

6 It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.

7 Samaria and her king float away, like a twig on the water.

8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, |Cover us!| and the hills, |Fall on us!|

9 |Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn't overtake them in Gibeah.

Hosea 10:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:7[As for] Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

10:7Samaria and its king will float away like a twig on the surface of the waters.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:7Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the water.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:7As for'samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:7As for Samaria her king is cut off as chips upon the face of the waters.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:7As for Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:7As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:7Cut off is Samaria! Its king is as a chip on the face of the waters.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:7As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam on the water.