en_tn_condensed/hos/07/12.md

I will spread my net over them

This is a way to catch birds. Yahweh continues to compare the people of Israel to doves. When they go to Egypt or Assyria for help, Yahweh will punish them.

I will bring them down like the birds of the sky

"I will hunt them like birds" or "I will catch them like a hunter catches birds"

in their flocking together

"when they gather together"