Hosea 5:12

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sebab itu Aku ini akan seperti ngengat bagi Efraim dan seperti belatung bagi kaum Yehuda.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab itu Aku ini akan seperti ngengat bagi Efraim dan seperti belatung bagi kaum Yehuda.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sebab itu Aku ini bagi Efrayim seperti gegat, dan bagi bangsa Yehudapun seperti ulat yang membinasakan.

Contextual Overview

⁸ Blowe with the shawmes at Gibea, and with the trumpet in Ramah, crye out at Bethauen, after thee O Beniamin. ⁹ In the tyme of the plague shall Ephraim be layde waste: in the tribes of Israel haue I shewed the trueth. ¹⁰ The princes of Iuda haue ben lyke them that remoue the lande markes: therefore wyll I powre out my wrath vpon them like water. ¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed and broken in iudgement, because he wyllyngly folowed the commaundement. ¹² Therefore wyll I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Iuda as a caterpiller. ¹³ When Ephraim sawe his sicknesse, and Iuda his disease, Ephraim went vnto Assur, and sent vnto kyng Iareb, yet coulde not he helpe you, nor ease you of your payne. ¹⁴ I wyll be vnto Ephraim as a lion, and as a lions whelpe to the house of Iuda: I [euen] I wyll spoyle, and go my away: I wyll take away, and no man shall rescue. ¹⁵ I wyll go and returne to my place, tyll they knowledge that they haue sinned and seeke me. In their aduersitie they shall early seeke me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as a: Job 13:28, Isaiah 50:9, Isaiah 51:8

as: Proverbs 12:4

rottenness: or, a worm, Jonah 4:7, Mark 9:44-48

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 14:16 - who did sin 2 Kings 15:37 - Rezin Psalms 39:11 - his beauty Isaiah 1:6 - they have Isaiah 9:14 - will cut Jeremiah 30:15 - thy sorrow Jeremiah 31:18 - Thou hast Hosea 5:9 - Ephraim Hosea 6:1 - he hath torn Amos 2:4 - Judah James 5:2 - your garments

Cross-References

Luke 3:37
Whiche was the sonne of Mathusala, whiche was the sonne of Enoch, which was the sonne of Iared, whiche was the sonne of Maleleel, whiche was the sonne of Cainan:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth,.... Which eats garments, penetrates into them, feeds on them privately, secretly, without any noise, and gradually and slowly consumes them; but at last utterly, that they are of no use and profit: this may signify the various things which befell the ten tribes in the reigns of Zachariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, and Pekah, which secretly and gradually weakened them; and the utter consumption of them in the times of Hoshea by Shalmaneser:

and to the house of Judah as rottenness; as rottenness in the bones,

Proverbs 12:4; which can never be got out or cured; or as a worm that eats into wood, as Jarchi interprets it; and gets into the very heart of a tree, and eats it out: thus the Lord threatens the house of Judah, or the two tribes, with a gradual, yet thorough, ruin and destruction.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore I will be unto Ephraim a moth - Literally, “and I as a moth.” This form of speaking expresses what God was doing, while Ephraim was “willingly following” sin. “And I” was all the while “as a moth.” The moth in a garment, and the decay in wood, corrode and prey upon the substance, in which they lie hid, slowly, imperceptibly, but, at the last, effectually. Such were God’s first judgments on Israel and Judah; such are they now commonly upon sinners. He tried, and now too tries at first, gentle measures and mild chastisements, uneasy indeed and troublesome and painful; yet slow in their working; each stage of loss and decay, a little beyond that which preceded it; but leaving long respite and time for repentance, before they finally wear out and destroy the impenitent. The two images, which He uses, may describe different kinds of decay, both slow, yet the one slower than the other, as Judah was, in fact, destroyed more slowly than Ephraim. For the “rottenness,” or caries in wood, preys more slowly upon wood, which is hard, than the moth on the wool.

So God visits the soul with different distresses, bodily or spiritual. He impairs, little by little, health of body, or fineness of understanding; or He withdraws grace or spiritual strength; or allows lukewarmness and distaste for the things of God to creep over the soul. These are the gnawing of the moth, overlooked by the sinner, if he persevere in carelessness as to his conscience, yet in the end, bringing entire decay of health, of understanding, of heart, of mind, unless God interfere by the mightier mercy of some heavy chastisement, to awaken him. : “A moth does mischief, and makes no sound. So the minds of the wicked, in that they neglect to take account of their losses, lose their soundness, as it were, without knowing it. For they lose innocency from the heart, truth from the lips, continency from the flesh, and, as time holds on, life from their age.” To Israel and Judah the moth and rottenness denoted the slow decay, by which they were gradually weakened, until they were carried away captive.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 5:12. Unto Ephraim as a moth — I will consume them by little and little, as a moth frets a garment.