But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.
Hosea 6:10 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 In the house of Israel I have seen an horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, 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 forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.
for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to sin; because of his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
Therefore thus saith the LORD: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen an horrible thing; they commit adultery, and walk in lies, and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Moreover the LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them: and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou hast committed whoredom, Israel is defiled.