Hosea 5:2
What does Hosea 5:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Hosea 5:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I <FI>am<Fi> a fetter to them all.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And you have turned aside victims into the depth and I am the teacher of them all.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And they have plunged themselves in the corruption of apostasy, but I will be a chastiser of them all.
Context
v.1Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
v.2This passage
v.3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hosea 6:9
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness.
- Jeremiah 6:28
They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
- Psalms 64:3
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
- Jeremiah 18:18
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
- Psalms 140:1
Deliver me, O Jehovah, from the evil man; Preserve me from the violent man:
- Jeremiah 5:3
O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
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