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Literal Standard Version

Hosea 5:2

And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, || And I [am] a chain to them all.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Tabor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hosea;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hosea;   Rebuke;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Rebels are deeply involved in slaughter;I will be a punishment for all of them.
Hebrew Names Version
The rebels are deep in slaughter; But I discipline all of them.
King James Version
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
English Standard Version
And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.
New American Standard Bible
And the rebels have gone deep in depravity, But I will discipline all of them.
New Century Version
You have done many evil things, so I will punish you all.
Amplified Bible
The revolters have gone deep into depravity, But I [the LORD God] will chastise them all.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet they were profounde, to decline to slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The revolters have gone deep in depravity, But I will chastise all of them.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the revolters have dug deep into slaughtering,But I will chastise all of them.
Berean Standard Bible
The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise all of them.
Contemporary English Version
At the place of worship you were a treacherous pit, and I will punish you.
Complete Jewish Bible
The rebels have deepened their slaughter, and I am rejected by all of them.
Darby Translation
And they have plunged themselves in the corruption of apostasy, but I will be a chastiser of them all.
Easy-to-Read Version
You have done many evil things, so I will punish you all.
George Lamsa Translation
And the hunters who hunt have laid hidden snares, but I will chastise them all.
Good News Translation
a deep pit at Acacia City, and I will punish all of you.
Lexham English Bible
they dug a deep pit in Shittim, but I am a punishment for all of them.
Literal Translation
And revolters have gone deep in slaughtering, and I chasten all of them.
American Standard Version
And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
Bible in Basic English
They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they that fall away are gone deep in making slaughter; and I am rejected of them all.
King James Version (1611)
And the reuolters are profound to make slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They kyll sacrifices by heapes, and turne farre from the Lord, and I haue ben a rebuker of them all.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
which they that hunt the prey have fixed: but I will correct you.
English Revised Version
And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
World English Bible
The rebels are deep in slaughter; But I discipline all of them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye bowiden doun sacrifices in to depthe; and Y am the lernere of alle hem.
Update Bible Version
And the revolters have gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I [have been] a rebuker of them all.
New English Translation
Those who revolt are knee-deep in slaughter, but I will discipline them all.
New King James Version
The revolters are deeply involved in slaughter, Though I rebuke them all.
New Living Translation
You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia Grove. But I will settle with you for what you have done.
New Life Bible
Those who will not obey have gone deep into sin, but I will punish all of them.
New Revised Standard
and a pit dug deep in Shittim; but I will punish all of them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, a slaughter, have apostates deeply designed, - though, I, was a rebuker to them all.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And you have turned aside victims into the depth and I am the teacher of them all.
Revised Standard Version
And they have made deep the pit of Shittim; but I will chastise all of them.
Young's Literal Translation
And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I [am] a fetter to them all.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They kyll sacrifices by heapes, to begyle the people therwith: therfore wil I punysh them all.

Contextual Overview

1"Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, || And, O house of the king, give ear, || For the judgment [is] for you, || For you have been a snare on Mizpah, || And a net spread out on Tabor. 2And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, || And I [am] a chain to them all.3I have known Ephraim, || And Israel has not been hid from Me, || For now you have gone whoring, Ephraim, || Israel is defiled. 4They do not give up their habitual doings, || To turn back to their God, || For a spirit of whoredoms [is] in their midst, || And YHWH they have not known. 5And humbled has been the excellence of Israel to his face, || And Israel and Ephraim stumble by their iniquity, || Judah has also stumbled with them. 6With their flock and with their herd, || They go to seek YHWH, and do not find, || He has withdrawn from them. 7Against YHWH they dealt treacherously, || For they have begotten strange sons, || Now a month consumes them [with] their portions.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the revolters: Hosea 6:9, Hosea 9:15, Jeremiah 6:28

profound: Psalms 64:3-6, Psalms 140:1-5, Isaiah 29:15, Jeremiah 11:18, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 18:18, Luke 22:2-5, Acts 23:12-15

though: or, and, etc

a rebuker: Heb. a correction, Hosea 6:5, Isaiah 1:5, Jeremiah 5:3, Jeremiah 25:3-7, Amos 4:6-12, Zephaniah 3:1, Zephaniah 3:2, Revelation 3:19

Reciprocal: Hosea 4:2 - toucheth

Cross-References

Genesis 1:27
And God creates the man in His image; in the image of God He created him, a male and a female He created them.
Genesis 2:15
And YHWH God takes the man, and causes him to rest in the Garden of Eden, to serve it and to keep it.
Genesis 2:23
and the man says, "This at last! Bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!" For this is called Woman, for this has been taken from Man;
Malachi 2:15
And He did not make one [only], || And a remnant of the Spirit [is] for him. And what [is] the one [alone]! He is seeking a godly seed. And you have been watchful over your spirit, || And with the wife of your youth, || None deal treacherously.
Matthew 19:4
And He answering said to them, "Did you not read that He who made [them] from the beginning, made them a male and a female,
Mark 10:6
but from the beginning of the creation God made them a male and a female;
Acts 17:26
He also made every nation of man of one blood, to dwell on all the face of the earth—having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings—

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the revolters are profound to make slaughter,.... The revolters are the king, priests, and people, who had revolted from the true worship and ways of God unto idolatry. These formed deep laid schemes, and took crafty methods, like hawkers; who lay themselves flat upon the ground to manage their snares and nets, and observe the creatures that fall into them, and take them, and whom they artfully decoy, to which the allusion is; and that either to slay those who would not comply with their false worship; or rather to multiply the sacrifices of slain beasts, and offer them with a great show of devotion and religion, and thereby beguile, entice, and ensnare simple and unwary souls; so the Targum,

"they sacrifice to idols abundantly;''

and which, in the sight of God, was mere slaughter and butchery:

though I [have been] a rebuker of them all; king, priests, and prophets; those idolaters, revolters, or worshippers of Baal, as Aben Ezra calls them: this is to be interpreted either of the prophet, who had freely, faithfully, and openly reproved all orders of men for their departure from God and his worship, and for their idolatrous practices; or of the Lord himself, which comes to the same sense, who had rebuked them by his prophets, and corrected them by his judgments, but to no purpose: and therefore they could not plead ignorance, or excuse themselves upon that account.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the revolters are profound to make slaughter - Literally, “They made the slaughter deep,” as Isaiah says, “they deeply corupted themselves” Isaiah 31:6; and our old writers say “He smote deep.” They willed also doubtless to “make it deep,” hide it so deep, that God should never know it, as the Psalmist says of the ungodly, “that the inward self and heart of the worker’s of iniquity is deep,” whereon it follows, that God should “suddenly wound them,” as here the prophet subjoins that God rebuked them. Actual and profuse murder has been already Hosea 4:2 mentioned as one of the common sins of Israel, and it is afterward Hosea 6:9 also charged upon the priests.

Though I have been a rebuker - Literally, “a rebuke,” as the Psalmist says, “I am prayer” Psalms 109:4, i. e., “I am all prayer.” The Psalmist’s whole being was turned into prayer. So here, all the attributes of God, His mercies, love, justice, were concentrated into one, and that one, rebuke. Rebuke was the one form, in which they were all seen. It is an aggravation of crime to do it in the place of judgment or in the presence of the judge. Israel was immersed in his sin and heeded not, although God rebuked him continually by His voice in the law, forbidding all idolatry, and was now all the while, both in word and deed, rebuking him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 5:2. The revolters are profound to make slaughter — Here may be a reference to the practice of hunters, making deep pits in the ground, and lightly covering them over, that the beasts, not discovering them, might fall in, and become a prey.

Though I have been a Rebuker — "I will bring chastisement on them all." As they have made victims of others to their idolatry, I will make victims of them to my justice. Some have thought that as many as wished to depart from the idolatrous worship set up by Jeroboam, were slaughtered; and thus Jeroboam the son of Nebat MADE Israel to sin.


 
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