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Hosea 9:6

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6 For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.

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Nettles

  

'Nettles' signify vastation of good. 'An abandoned place of nettles,' as in Zephaniah 2:9, signifies the rage or burning of the life of a person from self-love.

In Isaiah 34:13, this signifies the falsities and evils of Edom. (Apocalypse Explained 714[18])

In Hosea 9:6, this signifies falsity destroying all truth. (Apocalypse Explained 799[14])

(References: Arcana Coelestia 2455 [1-4]; Zephaniah 2)


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Zephaniah 2:9

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9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.