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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Hosea 13:12

The iniquitie of Ephraim is bound vp: his sinne is hid.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ephraim;   Wicked (People);  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Seal;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bags;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hosea;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Omniscience;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Ephraim’s guilt is preserved;his sin is stored up.
Hebrew Names Version
The guilt of Efrayim is stored up. His sin is stored up.
King James Version
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
English Standard Version
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
New American Standard Bible
The guilt of Ephraim is wrapped up; His sin is stored up.
New Century Version
The sins of Israel are on record, stored away, waiting for punishment.
Amplified Bible
The wickedness of Ephraim [which is not yet completely punished] is bound up [as in a bag]; His sin is stored up [for judgment and destruction].
Geneva Bible (1587)
The iniquitie of Ephraim is bound vp: his sinne is hid.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is stored up.
Legacy Standard Bible
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;His sin is stored up.
Berean Standard Bible
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord said: Israel, your terrible sins are written down and stored away.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Efrayim's guilt has been wrapped up, his sin is stored away.
Darby Translation
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid by in store.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Ephraim tried to hide his guilt. He thought his sins were a secret, but he will be punished.
George Lamsa Translation
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
Good News Translation
"Israel's sin and guilt are on record, and the records are safely stored away.
Lexham English Bible
The sin of Ephraim is wrapped up; his sin is concealed.
Literal Translation
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hidden.
American Standard Version
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.
Bible in Basic English
The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The wickednesse of Ephraim is bound together, and his sinne lyeth hyd.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ephraim has framed a conspiracy of unrighteousness, his sin is hidden.
English Revised Version
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.
World English Bible
The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The wickidnesse of Effraym is boundun togidere; his synne is hid.
Update Bible Version
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.
Webster's Bible Translation
The iniquity of Ephraim [is] bound up; his sin [is] hid.
New English Translation
The punishment of Ephraim has been decreed; his punishment is being stored up for the future.
New King James Version
"The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is stored up.
New Living Translation
"Ephraim's guilt has been collected, and his sin has been stored up for punishment.
New Life Bible
"The wrong-doing of Ephraim is being kept. His sin is being stored up.
New Revised Standard
Ephraim's iniquity is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Bound up, is the iniquity of Ephraim, stored away, his sin.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hidden.
Revised Standard Version
The iniquity of E'phraim is bound up, his sin is kept in store.
Young's Literal Translation
Bound up [is] the iniquity of Ephraim, Hidden [is] his sin,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The wickednesse of Ephraim is bounde together, & his synne lieth hyd.

Contextual Overview

9 O Israel, thou hast destroied thy selfe, but in me is thine helpe. 10 I will be thy King: where is any other that may saue thee in all thy cities? and thy Iudges of whom thou saidst, Giue me a King and Princes? 11 I gaue thee a king in mine anger, and tooke him away in my wrath. 12 The iniquitie of Ephraim is bound vp: his sinne is hid. 13 The sorrowes of a traueiling woman shall come vpon him, he is an vnwise sonne, for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking foorth of children. 14 I will ransome them from the power of the graue: I will redeeme them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues, O graue, I will be thy destruction; repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. 15 Though he be fruitfull among his brethren, an East winde shall come, the winde of the Lord shall come vp from the wildernesse, and his spring shall become drie, and his fountaine shalbe dried vp: he shall spoile the treasure of all pleasant vessels. 16 Samaria shall become desolate, for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shalbe dashed in pieces, and their women with childe shalbe ript vp.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:34, Deuteronomy 32:35, Job 14:17, Job 21:19, Romans 2:5

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 2:22 - yet thine iniquity

Cross-References

Genesis 13:7
And there was a strife betweene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lots cattell: And the Canaanite, and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
Genesis 13:8
And Abram said vnto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, betweene mee and thee, and betweene my heardmen and thy heardmen: for wee bee brethren.
Genesis 14:12
And they tooke Lot, Abrams brothers sonne, (who dwelt in Sodome) and his goods, and departed.
Genesis 19:1
And there came two Angels to Sodome at euen, and Lot sate in the gate of Sodome: and Lot seeing them, rose vp to meet them, and he bowed himselfe with his face toward the ground.
Genesis 19:25
And he ouerthrew those cities, and all the plaine, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew vpon the ground.
Genesis 19:29
And it came to passe, when God destroyed the cities of the plaine, that God remembred Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the ouerthrow, when he ouerthrew the cities, in the which Lot dwelt.
Psalms 26:5
I haue hated the congregation of euill doers: and will not sit with the wicked.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Bee not deceiued: euill communications corrupt good manners.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The iniquity of Ephraim [is] bound up; his sin [is] hid. Which Kimchi restrains to the sin of the calves, and worshipping them; and others to the request of a king, the context speaks of: but it seems best to understand it in a more general sense of these, with all other sins, which were bound up, and not loosed, or were not remitted and forgiven, they being impenitent, and persisting in their sins; and which were bound up as in a bag or purse, in order to be opened and brought forth in proper time in open court, and be took cognizance of in a judiciary way; with which agrees an expression in Job 14:17; or which were laid up among the treasures of divine omniscience, in the mind of God, and not forgotten by him, as they might be thought to be, and would in due time be brought to light, and vengeance took on them. So the Targum,

"the sins of the house of Ephraim are treasured up; they are reserved to punish all their offences;''

see Deuteronomy 32:34.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up - (As in a bag or purse, and so, “treasured up”), as Job saith, using the same word, “My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and Thou sewest up mine iniquity.” Job 14:17. “His sin” is “hid” i. e., as people lay up hidden treasure, to be brought out in its season. What Job feared for himself; was to be the portion of Ephraim. All his sins should be counted, laid by, heaped up. No one of them should escape His eye who sees all things as they pass, and with whom, when past, they are present still. One by one, sins enter into the treasure-house of wrath; silently they are stored up, until the measure is full; to be brought out and unfolded in the Great Day. Ephraim thought, as do all sinners, that because God does not punish at once, He never will. They think, either that God will bear with them always, because He bears with them so long; or that He does not see, does not regard it, is not so precise about His laws being broken. “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil” Ecclesiastes 8:11.

But God had forewarned them; “Is not this laid up in store with Me, and sealed up among My treasures? To Me belongeth vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time” Deuteronomy 32:34, Deuteronomy 32:5; and, “These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; and thou thoughtest wickedly that I was altogether such an one as thyself; I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes” Psalms 50:21. Unrepented sin is an evergrowing store of the wrath of God, hid out of sight in the depths of the divine judgments, but of which nothing will be lost, nothing missing. Man treasures it up, lays it up in store for himself, as the Apostle saith; “Despisest thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance; but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to every man according to his deeds?” Romans 2:4-6. : “‘Sin is hidden,’ when it is laid open by no voice of confession; yea, when it is covered with a shield of proud self-defense. Then iniquity is bound up, so that it cannot be loosed or forgiven. Contrariwise a holy man saith, “I acknowledged my sin unto Thee, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin” Psalms 32:5.

But these hide their sin in the sight of people, and since they cannot hide it in the sight of God, they defend it with impenitent hearts, but “the pangs of a travailing woman,” he saith, “shall come upon him.” For as a woman can conceal her conception for a time, but, at last, the travail-pangs betraying her, she discloses what was concealed, so these can dissemble and conceal for a time their sin, but in their time all the hidden things of their hearts shall, with anguish, be revealed, according to that, ‘There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed, and hid, that shall not be known.’ Matthew 10:26.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 13:12. The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up — It is registered in my court of justice; the death warrant is in store, and will be produced in due time. Though there be not at present the judgment inflicted which such glaring transgressions demand, yet it will surely come. Such crimes cannot go unpunished.


 
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