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Hosea 4

Hos. 4:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thereforer shall the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
mourn
'abal (Hebrew #56)
to bewail
KJV usage: lament, mourn.
Pronounce: aw-bal'
Origin: a primitive root
, and every ones that dwelleth
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
therein shall languish
'amal (Hebrew #535)
to droop; by implication to be sick, to mourn
KJV usage: languish, be weak, wax feeble.
Pronounce: aw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
, with the beasts
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
of the field
sadeh (Hebrew #7704)
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat)
KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.
Pronounce: saw-deh'
Origin: or saday {saw-dah'-ee}
, and with the fowls
`owph (Hebrew #5775)
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
KJV usage: bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.
Pronounce: ofe
Origin: from 5774
of heaven
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
; yea, the fishes
dag (Hebrew #1709)
from 1711; a fish (as prolific); or perhaps rather from 1672 (as timid); but still better from 1672 (in the sense of squirming, i.e. moving by the vibratory action of the tail); a fish (often used collectively)
KJV usage: fish.
Pronounce: dawg
Origin: or (fully) dag (Nehemiah 13:16) {dawg}
of the sea
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
also shall be taken away
'acaph (Hebrew #622)
to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
KJV usage: assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), X generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, X surely, take (away, into, up), X utterly, withdraw.
Pronounce: aw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
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Amos 5:16• 16Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all broadways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. (Amos 5:16)
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Zeph. 1:3• 3I will take away man and beast; I will take away the fowl of the heavens and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked, and I will cut off mankind from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah. (Zeph. 1:3)

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Ministry on This Verse

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the land.
Isa. 24:4‑12• 4The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.
 5And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
 6Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men are left.
 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;
 8the mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
 9They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.
 10The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.
 11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone;
 12desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten,--a ruin. (Isa. 24:4‑12)
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Jer. 4:27• 27For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end. (Jer. 4:27)
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Joel 1:10‑13• 10The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
 11Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.
 12The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm also and the apple-tree; all the trees of the field are withered, yea, joy is withered away from the children of men.
 13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God. (Joel 1:10‑13)
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Amos 1:2• 2And he said, Jehovah roareth from Zion, and uttereth his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withereth. (Amos 1:2)
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Amos 5:16• 16Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all broadways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. (Amos 5:16)
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Amos 8:8• 8Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? And it shall wholly rise up like the Nile; and it shall surge and sink down, as the river of Egypt. (Amos 8:8)
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Nah. 1:4• 4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. (Nah. 1:4)
with the beasts.
Jer. 4:25• 25I beheld, and lo, man was not, and all the fowl of the heavens were fled. (Jer. 4:25)
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Jer. 12:4• 4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of all the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts and the birds perish; for they say, He will not see our end. (Jer. 12:4)
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Ezek. 38:20• 20so that the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things which creep upon the earth, and all mankind that are upon the face of the earth shall shake at my presence; and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. (Ezek. 38:20)
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Zeph. 1:3• 3I will take away man and beast; I will take away the fowl of the heavens and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked, and I will cut off mankind from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah. (Zeph. 1:3)
• God marked His sense of all by desolation in the lower creation, down to those which might seem farthest from the control or influence of man. (“Hosea 4” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For this shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowl of the heavens, yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.