The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, And the last of you with fish hooks.
The Septuagint and Vatican renditions of this place have: "And fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling cauldrons."[15]  Such uncertainties are due to the fact that the words translated "hooks," "fish-hooks" and "Harmon" are not exactly known, as to their meanings. Such difficulties, however, do not in any sense obscure the meaning of the prophet in this passage, that being that a terrible fate is in store for the sensual profligates called the "kine of Bashan."  The leading of captives by "hooks" which is certainly one of the possible meanings here was no unlikely event, for: