Hosea 10:7
World English Bible (WEB)
Samaria and her king float away like a twig on the water.
In context
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 every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Samaria and her king float away like a twig on the water.
- KJV King James Version
- As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.
- ASV American Standard Version
- As for Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Cut off is Samaria! Its king [is] as a chip on the face of the waters.
- DBY Darby Translation
- As for Samaria her king is cut off as chips upon the face of the waters.
- WBS Webster Bible
- As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.