Hosea 6:10

JPS Old Testament

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; there harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I have seen something horrible in the house of Israel:Ephraim’s promiscuity is there; Israel is defiled.

Hebrew Names Version
In the house of Yisra'el I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Efrayim. Yisra'el is defiled.

King James Version
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

English Standard Version
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.

New American Standard Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's infidelity is there, Israel has defiled itself.

New Century Version
I have seen horrible things in Israel. Look at Israel's prostitution; Israel has become unclean.

Amplified Bible
I have seen a horrible thing [sins of every kind] in the house of Israel! Ephraim's prostitution (idolatry) is there; Israel has defiled itself.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue seene vileny in the house of Israel: there is ye whoredome of Ephraim: Israel is defiled.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.

Legacy Standard Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen an appalling thing;Ephraim's harlotry is there; Israel has defiled itself.

Berean Standard Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: There Ephraim practices prostitution and Israel is defiled.

Contemporary English Version
I have seen a terrible thing in Israel— you are unfaithful and unfit to worship me.

Complete Jewish Bible
In the house of Isra'el I have seen a horrible thing; whoring is found there in Efrayim, Isra'el is defiled.

Darby Translation
In the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: the whoredom of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.

Easy-to-Read Version
I have seen a terrible thing in the nation of Israel. Ephraim was unfaithful to God. Israel is dirty with sin.

George Lamsa Translation
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there Ephraim committed whoredom, and Israel was defiled.

Good News Translation
I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: my people have defiled themselves by worshiping idols.

Lexham English Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen something horrible; Ephraim's unfaithfulness is there. Israel is defiled.

Literal Translation
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornication of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.

American Standard Version
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Bible in Basic English
In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;

King James Version (1611)
I haue seene an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredome of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Horrible thinges haue I seene in the house of Israel: there is the fornication of Ephraim, and Israel is defiled.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thy strength is that of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered the people of Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.

English Revised Version
In the house of Israel I have seen an horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

World English Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In the hous of Israel Y siy an orible thing; there the fornicaciouns of Effraym.

Update Bible Version
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there prostitution is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

New English Translation
I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself.

New King James Version
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: There is the harlotry of Ephraim; Israel is defiled.

New Living Translation
Yes, I have seen something horrible in Ephraim and Israel: My people are defiled by prostituting themselves with other gods!

New Life Bible
I have seen a very bad thing among the people of Israel. Ephraim has left Me to worship false gods. Israel has made itself unclean.

New Revised Standard
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there, Israel is defiled.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In the house of Israel, have I seen a horrible thing, - there, the unchastity of Ephraim, defiled is Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.

Revised Standard Version
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; E'phraim's harlotry is there, Israel is defiled.

Young's Literal Translation
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Horrible thinges haue I sene in the house of Israel, there playeth Ephraim the harlot, and Israel is defyled:

THE MESSAGE
"I saw a shocking thing in the country of Israel: Ephraim worshiping in a religious whorehouse, and Israel in the mud right there with him.

Contextual Overview

⁴ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away. ⁵ Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of My mouth; and thy judgment goeth forth as the light. ⁶ For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt-offerings. ⁷ But they like men have transgressed the covenant; there have they dealt treacherously against Me. ⁸ Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is covered with footprints of blood. ⁹ And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so doth the company of priests; they murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they commit enormity. ¹⁰ In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; there harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled. ¹¹ Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for thee! When I would turn the captivity of My people,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 2:12, Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 5:30, Jeremiah 5:31, Jeremiah 18:13, Jeremiah 23:14

there: Hosea 4:11, Hosea 4:17, Hosea 5:3, 1 Kings 12:8, 1 Kings 15:30, 2 Kings 17:7, Jeremiah 3:6, Ezekiel 23:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:9 - I have seen Deuteronomy 9:13 - I have Isaiah 28:1 - the crown Ezekiel 23:7 - with all their Hosea 7:1 - they commit Micah 1:1 - concerning

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
And Noah was five hundred years old; and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel,.... Idolatry, the calves set up at Dan and Bethel, which God saw with abhorrence and detestation; or the prophet saw it, and it made his hair stand on end as it were, as the word g signifies, that such wickedness should be committed by a professing people:

there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim; in the house of Israel is the whoredom of Jeroboam, who was of the tribe of Ephraim, and caused Israel to sin, to go a whoring after idols; or the whoredom of the tribe of Ephraim, which belonged to the house of Israel, and even of all the ten tribes; both corporeal and spiritual whoredom, or idolatry, are here meant:

Israel is defiled; with whoredom of both kinds; it had spread itself all over the ten tribes; they were all infected with it, and polluted by it; see Hosea 5:3.

g שערוריה a שער "pilus".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have seen a horrible thing - Literally, “what would make one shudder.” God had seen it; therefore man could not deny it. In the sight of God, and amid the sense of His presence, all excuses fail.

In the house of Israel - ^o: “For what more horrible, more amazing than that this happened, not in any ordinary nation but “in the house of Israel,” in the people of God, in the portion of the Lord, as Moses said, “the Lord’s portion is His people, Jacob is the lot of His inheritance?” In another nation, idolatry was error. In Israel, which had the knowledge of the one true God and had received the law, it was horror.” “There is the whoredom of Ephraim,” widespread, over the whole land, wherever the house of Ephraim was, through the whole kingdom of the ten tribes, “there” was its spiritual adultery and defilement.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 6:10. I have seen a horrible thing — That is, the idolatry that prevailed in Israel to such a degree that the whole land was defiled.