Hosea 10:2

Amplified Bible

Their heart is divided (faithless); Now they must bear their guilt and punishment. The LORD will break down [the horns of] their altars; He will destroy their idolatrous pillars.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their hearts are devious;now they must bear their guilt.The Lord will break down their altarsand demolish their sacred pillars.

Hebrew Names Version
Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

King James Version
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

English Standard Version
Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars and destroy their pillars.

New American Standard Bible
Their heart is deceitful; Now they must suffer for their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars And destroy their memorial stones.

New Century Version
Their heart was false, and now they must pay for their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars; he will destroy their holy stone pillars.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Their heart is deuided: nowe shall they be founde faultie: he shall breake downe their altars: he shall destroy their images.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Their heart is faithless; Now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars And destroy their sacred pillars.

Legacy Standard Bible
Their heart is faithless;Now they must bear their guilt.Yahweh will break down their altarsAnd destroy their sacred pillars.

Berean Standard Bible
Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.

Contemporary English Version
You are deceitful and disloyal. So you will pay for your sins, because the Lord will destroy your altars and images.

Complete Jewish Bible
Their heart is divided; now they will bear their guilt. He will break down their altars and destroy their standing-stones.

Darby Translation
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will break down their altars, he will destroy their statues.

Easy-to-Read Version
The people of Israel tried to trick God, but now they must accept their guilt. He will break down their altars and destroy their memorial stones.

George Lamsa Translation
Their heart is wavering; and from now they shall be condemned; he shall demolish their altars; he shall plunder their shrines.

Good News Translation
The people whose hearts are deceitful must now suffer for their sins. God will break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.

Lexham English Bible
Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. He himself will break down their altars; he will destroy their stone pillars.

Literal Translation
Their heart is divided. Now they shall be guilty. He will break down their altars; He will spoil their pillars.

American Standard Version
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.

Bible in Basic English
Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Their heart is divided; now shall they bear their guilt; He will break down their altars, He will spoil their pillars.

King James Version (1611)
Their heart is diuided: now shall they be found faultie: hee shall breake downe their altars: he shall spoile their images.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Their heart is deuided, [therfore] shall they nowe be destroyed, [the Lorde] shall breake downe their images, he shall destroy their aulters.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig down their altars, their pillars shall mourn.

English Revised Version
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he shall smite their altars, he shall spoil their pillars.

World English Bible
Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In simylacris the herte of hem is departid, now thei schulen perische. He schal breke the simylacris of hem, he schal robbe the auteris of hem.

Update Bible Version
Their heart is divided; now they shall be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.

Webster's Bible Translation
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

New English Translation
Their heart is slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The Lord will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.

New King James Version
Their heart is divided; Now they are held guilty. He will break down their altars; He will ruin their sacred pillars.

New Living Translation
The hearts of the people are fickle; they are guilty and must be punished. The Lord will break down their altars and smash their sacred pillars.

New Life Bible
Their heart is not faithful, and now they must suffer for their sins. The Lord will break down their altars and destroy their pillars for worship.

New Revised Standard
Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars, and destroy their pillars.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hypocritical is their heart, Now, shall they be held guilty, - He, will break down their altars, he will destroy their statutes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars.

Revised Standard Version
Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars, and destroy their pillars.

Young's Literal Translation
Their heart hath been divided, now they are guilty, He doth break down their altars, He doth destroy their standing-pillars.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their herte is deuyded, therfore wil they be destroyed. The LORDE shall breake downe their ymages, he shal destroye their aulters.

Contextual Overview

¹Israel is a luxuriant and prolific vine; He produces fruit for himself. The more his fruit, The more altars he made [to Baal]; The richer his land, The better he made the [idolatrous] pillars. ²Their heart is divided (faithless); Now they must bear their guilt and punishment. The LORD will break down [the horns of] their altars; He will destroy their idolatrous pillars.³Surely now they will say [in despair], "We have no [true] king, For we do not revere the LORD; And as for the king, what can he do for us [to rescue us]?" ⁴They have spoken empty (disingenuous) words, Swearing falsely to make covenants [they intend to break]; Therefore, judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. ⁵The people of Samaria will fear and tremble For the [idolatrous] calf of Beth-aven (House of Wickedness). Indeed, its people will mourn over it And its idolatrous priests will cry out and wail over it, Over its glory, because the glory [of their calf god] has departed from it. ⁶The golden calf itself will be carried to Assyria As tribute to King Jareb; Ephraim will be seized with shame And Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel [to worship the calf and separate Israel from Judah]. ⁷As for Samaria, her king will be cut off and float away Like a twig on the surface of the water. ⁸Also the high places of Aven (Beth-aven), the sin of Israel, will be destroyed; The thorn and the thistle will grow on their [pagan] altars, And [in despair] they will say to the mountains, "Cover us!" And to the hills, "Fall on us!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Their heart is divided: or, He hath divided their heart, Hosea 7:8, 1 Kings 18:21, Isaiah 44:18, Zephaniah 1:5, Matthew 6:24, Luke 16:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 2 Thessalonians 2:12, James 1:8, James 4:4, 1 John 2:15, Revelation 3:15, Revelation 3:16

break down: Heb. behead, Hosea 10:5-8, Hosea 8:5, Hosea 8:6, 1 Samuel 5:4, Jeremiah 43:13, Micah 5:13, Zechariah 13:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:28 - I will 2 Kings 17:33 - They feared 2 Chronicles 25:2 - but not Psalms 78:37 - their heart Psalms 86:11 - unite Psalms 119:10 - my whole Isaiah 17:8 - the work Ezekiel 6:6 - your altars Ezekiel 14:5 - I may Hosea 8:11 - many 1 Corinthians 6:7 - there Revelation 14:5 - without

Cross-References

Genesis 10:5
From these, [the people of] the coastlands of the nations were separated and spread into their lands, every one according to his own language, according to their constituent groups (families), and into their nations:

Genesis 10:7
the sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah; Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10:12
and [Nimrod built] Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; all these [combined to form] the great city [Nineveh].

Genesis 10:14
and Pathrusim and Casluhim—from whom came the Philistines—and Caphtorim.

Genesis 10:21
Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber [including the Hebrews], the older brother of Japheth, children were born.

Isaiah 66:19
"I will set up a [miraculous] sign among them, and from them I will send survivors to the nations: Tarshish, Pul (Put), Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant islands and coastlands that have not heard of My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare and proclaim My glory among the nations.

Ezekiel 27:7
"Your sail was of fine embroidered linen from Egypt So that it became your distinguishing mark (insignia); Your [ship's] awning [which covered you] was blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah [of Asia Minor].

Ezekiel 27:19
"Vedan and Javan traded with yarn from Uzal [in Arabia] for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were among your merchandise.

Ezekiel 38:6
Gomer and all its troops; Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north and all its troops—many peoples with you.

Ezekiel 38:15
"You will come from your place in the remote parts of the north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding horses, a great horde, and a mighty army;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their heart is divided,.... Some say from Hoshea their king, who would have reformed them from their idolatry, and returned them to the true worship of God; but of that there is no proof; better from one another, their affections being alienated from each other, by their discords and animosities, their conspiracies against their kings, and the murders of them, and the civil wars among themselves; they also not being of one mind, but disagreeing in their sentiments about their idols; some being for one, and some for another: or rather from God himself, from the fear of him, from his worship and service; or from the law, as the Targum; or their hearts were divided between God and their idols, as in Ahab's time between God and Baal; they pretended to worship God when they worshipped the calves, and so shared the service between them; or it may be rendered, "their heart flatters" r them; as if they had done that which was right and good, and were guilty of no evil, nor would any punishment be inflicted on them:

now shall they be found faulty; be convicted of their sin and folly, and appear guilty; when they shall be punished for their idolatry, and their idols not able to save them, as the destruction of them next mentioned will fully evince: or, "now shall they become desolate" s their land shall be desolate, and they carried captive:

he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images: that is, the king of Assyria shall do all this, or God by him: or, "behead their altars" t; take off the top of them, as the Targum; the horns of them, which might be made of gold, or other ornaments which were of value; and therefore became the plunder of the enemy; and who also would break in pieces their images, for the sake of the metal, gold or silver, of which they were made; as was usually done by conquerors, and to show their entire power over the conquered, that even their gods could not deliver them out of their hands.

r חלק לבם "adblanditur cor eorum", Schmidt. s עתה יאשמו "nunc desolabuntur", Pagninus, Montanus, Munster, Drusius; so Kimchi and Ben Melech. t יערף "decollabit", Drusius, Piscator, Tarnovius, De Dieu; "decervicabit", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their heart is divided - Between God and their idols, in that they would not wholly part with either, as Elijah upbraided them, “How long halt ye between the two opinions?” 1 Kings 18:21. When the pagan, by whom the king of Assyria replaced them, had been taught by one of the priests whom the king sent back, in order to avert God’s judgments, they still propagated this division. Like Jeroboam 2 Kings 17:32-33, 2 Kings 17:41, they became fearers of the Lord,” His worshipers, “and made to themselves out of their whole number (i. e., indiscriminately) priests of the high places. They were fearers of the Lord, and they were servers of their gods, according to the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. These nations were fearers of the Lord, and they were servers of their idols, both their children and their children’s children. As did their fathers, so do they unto this day.”

This divided allegiance was their hereditary worship. These pagan, as taught by one of the priests of Israel, added the service of God to that of their idols, as Israel had added the service of the idols to that of God. But God rejecteth such half service; from where he adds, “now,” in a brief time, all but come, “they shall be found faulty,” literally, “they shall be guilty,” shall be convicted of guilt and shall bear it. They thought to “serve at once God and Mammon;” but, in truth, they served their idols only, whom they would not part with for God. God Himself then would turn away all their worship, bad, and, as they thought, good. “He,” from whom their heart was divided, He Himself, by His mighty power which no man can gain-say, “shall break down their altars,” literally, shall “behead” them. As they out of His gifts multiplied their altars and killed their sacrifices upon them against His will, so now should the altars themselves, be demolished; and “the images” which they had decked with the gold which He had given, should, on account of that very gold, tempt the spoiler, through whom God would spoil them.

He shall break down - He Himself. The word is emphatic. : “God willeth not that, when the merited vengeance of God is inflicted through man, it should be ascribed to man. Yea, if anyone ascribeth to himself what, by permission of God, he hath power to do against the people of God, he draweth down on him the displeasure of God, and, at times, on that very ground, can hurt the less” (see Deuteronomy 32:26, Deuteronomy 32:7; Isaiah 10:5 ff). The prophet then says very earnestly, “He Himself shall break,” meaning us to understand, not the lofty hand of the enemy, but that the Lord Himself did all these things.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 10:2. Their heart is divided — They wish to serve God and Mammon, Jehovah and Baal: but this is impossible. Now GOD will do in judgment what they should have done in contrition, "break down their altars, and spoil their images."