Hosea 7:16 
Context| NET © | They turn to Baal; 1 they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal 2 have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt. 3 |
| NIV © | They do not turn to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of their insolent words. For this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt. |
| NASB © | They turn, but not upward, They are like a deceitful bow; Their princes will fall by the sword Because of the insolence of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt. |
| NLT © | They look everywhere except to heaven, to the Most High. They are like a crooked bow that always misses its target. Their leaders will be killed by their enemies because of their insolence toward me. Then the people of Egypt will laugh at them. |
| MSG © | They turn, but not to me--turn here, then there, like a weather vane. Their rulers will be cut down, murdered--just deserts for their mocking blasphemies. And the final sentence? Ridicule in the court of world opinion. |
| BBE © | They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them. |
| NRSV © | They turn to that which does not profit; they have become like a defective bow; their officials shall fall by the sword because of the rage of their tongue. So much for their babbling in the land of Egypt. |
| NKJV © | They return, but not to the Most High; They are like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword For the cursings of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. |
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| NET © [draft] ITL | They turn <07725> to Baal <05920> <03808> ; they are <01961> like an unreliable <07423> bow <07198> . Their leaders <08269> will fall <05307> by the sword <02719> because their prayers to Baal <03956> have made me angry <02195> . So <02097> people will disdain <03933> them in the land <0776> of Egypt .<04714> |
| NET © | They turn to Baal; 1 they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal 2 have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt. 3 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tc The MT reads the enigmatic יָשׁוּבוּ לֹא עָל (yashuvu lo’ ’al) which is taken variously: “they turn, but not upward” (NASB); “they do not turn to the Most High” (NIV); “they return, but not to the most High” (KJV). The BHS editors suggest יָשׁוּבוּ לַבַּעַל (yashuvu labba’al, “they turn to Baal”; so RSV) or יָשׁוּבוּ לַבְּלִיַּעַל (yashuvu labbÿliyya’al, “they turn to Belial”) which is reflected by the LXX. 2 tn Heb “because their tongue.” The term “tongue” is used figuratively, as a metonymy of cause (tongue) for the effect (prayers to Baal). 3 tn Heb “this [will] be for scorn in the land of Egypt”; NIV “they will be ridiculed (NAB shall be mocked) in the land of Egypt.” |
