But now the Lord says, “In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all its great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble.”
Hosea 10:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. At dawn the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So shall it be done to you at [idolatrous] Bethel because of your great wickedness; at daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off. American Standard Version (1901) So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: at daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off. Common English Bible It will indeed happen to you, Bethel, because of your great wickedness. At dawn, the king of Israel will be cut off completely. Catholic Public Domain Version So has Bethel done to you, before the face of your malicious wickedness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So hath Bethel done to you, because of the evil of your iniquities. |
But now the Lord says, “In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all its great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble.”
therefore the tumult of war shall rise against your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
For now they will say: “We have no king, for we do not fear the Lord, and a king—what could he do for us?”
The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people shall mourn for it, and its idolatrous priests shall wail over it, over its glory that has departed from it.
Did what is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin that was working death in me through what is good, in order that it might be shown to be sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.