Hosea 5:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim and like dry rot to the house of Judah [in My judgment against them].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

Common English Bible

¹² Therefore, I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And I will be like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda.

Hosea 5:12 Cross References

Job 13:28

Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Psalm 39:11

When thou dost chasten man with rebukes for sin, thou dost consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely every man is a mere breath! Selah

Proverbs 12:4

A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 50:9

Behold, the Lord God helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.

Isaiah 51:8

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my deliverance will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.”

Jonah 4:7

But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm which attacked the plant, so that it withered.