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Therefore the land will mourn,
and all its inhabitants will perish.[a]
The wild animals,[b] the birds of the sky,
and even the fish in the sea will perish.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:3 tn Or “languish” (so KJV, NRSV); cf. NIV “waste away.”
  2. Hosea 4:3 tn Heb “the beasts of the field” (so NAB, NIV).

Because of this the land dries up,(A)
    and all who live in it waste away;(B)
the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
    and the fish in the sea are swept away.(C)

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