But he disregarded the advice that the older men gave him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and now attended him.
Hosea 6:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s prostitution is there; Israel is defiled. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel! There harlotry and idolatry are found in Ephraim; Israel is defiled. American Standard Version (1901) In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled. Common English Bible In the house of Israel I have seen something horrible; Ephraim acts like a prostitute; Israel is defiled. Catholic Public Domain Version I have seen horrible things in the house of Israel; the fornications of Ephraim are there. Israel has been contaminated. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled. |
But he disregarded the advice that the older men gave him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and now attended him.
because of the sins of Jeroboam that he committed and that he caused Israel to commit and because of the anger to which he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel.
This occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods
Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing.
But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a more shocking thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from wickedness; all of them have become like Sodom to me and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.
The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree and prostituted herself there?
Oholah prostituted herself while she was mine; she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors
She bestowed her sexual favors upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone for whom she lusted.
My people consult a piece of wood, and their divining rod gives them oracles. For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have prostituted themselves, forsaking their God.
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me, for now, O Ephraim, you have prostituted yourself; Israel is defiled.