Ezechielis 5:12

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Et ego quasi tinea Ephraim,
et quasi putredo domui Juda.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
quia spiritus amplior, et prudentia, intelligentiaque et interpretatio somniorum, et ostensio secretorum, ac solutio ligatorum invent� sunt in eo, hoc est in Daniele : cui rex posuit nomen Baltassar. Nunc itaque Daniel vocetur, et interpretationem narrabit.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Et ego quasi sanies Ephraim, et quasi putredo domui Iudae.

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

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.