And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
Hosea 5:12 - King James 2000 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. Common English Bible Therefore, I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda. |
And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that makes ashamed is like rottenness in his bones.
Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it attacked the plant so that it withered.