Hosea 5:12

Hosea chapter 5 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

Context

v.11Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after man’s command.

v.12This passage

v.13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 50:9

    Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

  • Jonah 4:7

    But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.

  • Job 13:28

    Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • Mark 9:43

    And if thy hand cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed, rather than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

  • Isaiah 51:8

    For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.

  • Proverbs 12:4

    A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.