But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
Hosea 6:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) In the house of Yisra'el I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Efrayim. Yisra'el is defiled. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
for the sins of Yarov`am which he sinned, and with which he made Yisra'el to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, to anger.
It was so, because the children of Yisra'el had sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Par`oh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Yisra'el has done a very horrible thing.
In the prophets of Yerushalayim also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sedom, and the inhabitants of it as `Amorah.
Moreover the LORD said to me in the days of Yoshiyahu the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Yisra'el has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Ashur [her] neighbors,
She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Ashur all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
I know Efrayim, and Yisra'el is not hidden from me; for now, Efrayim, you have played the prostitute. Yisra'el is defiled.