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!”
⛓ Read Hosea 10 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'They will begin to tell the mountains, Fall on us, and the hills, Cover us' reproduces Hosea 10:8 ('they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us') almost verbatim — a near-quotation of judgment on Israel transferred to Jerusalem's coming destruction. Highest volume in the pericope.
High confidence'They shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us' is quoted almost verbatim in v. 16 ('they told the mountains and the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us'); the closest thing to a formal citation in the pericope. LXX wording aligns tightly.
High confidence