Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 30:7 · retained source text
Among the bushes they brayed: vnder the nettles they were gathered together.
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nettles
Meaning of “nettles”
Wild plants growing among thorns and in neglected or desolate ground.
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First occurrence: Job 30:7
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Every verse containing “nettles”
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Proverbs 24:31 · retained source text
And loe, it was all growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall therof was broken downe:
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 34:13 · retained source text
And thornes shall come vp in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shalbe an habitation of dragons, and a court for owles.
1611 marginal noteOr, ostriches. Hebr. daughters of the owle.
For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Hosea 9:6 · retained source text
For loe they are gone, because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them vp, Memphis shall burie them: the pleasant places for their siluer, netles shal possesse them: thornes shall be in their Tabernacles.
1611 marginal noteHeb. spoile.
1611 marginal noteOr, their siluer shall be desired, the nettle &c: Heb. the desire.
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Zephaniah 2:9 · retained source text
Therefore, as I liue, saith the LORD of hostes the God of Israel, surely Moab shalbe as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, euen the breeding of netles, and salt pits, and a perpetuall desolation, the residue of my people shall spoile them, and the remnant of my people shall possesse them.
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