But he rejected the counsel the elders had given him, instead consulting with the young men who grew up with him and stood before him.
Hosea 6:10 - Tree of Life Version In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim’s prostitution is there, Israel has become unclean. 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 rejected the counsel the elders had given him, instead consulting with the young men who grew up with him and stood before him.
because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and caused Israel to commit, by which he utterly provoked Adonai, God of Israel.
Now it was so because the men of Israel had sinned against Adonai their God, who 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 says Adonai: “Ask now among the nations, whoever has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a most terrible thing.
But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: committing adultery and walking in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers. No one turns back from his evil. They are all like Sodom to Me and her inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
Then Adonai said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel did? She went up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there she committed adultery.
“Oholah prostituted herself, though she was Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians, warriors,
She prostituted herself with them, all of the choice men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.
My people consult their wooden idol and their divining rod informs them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have been a prostitute— out from under their God.
I myself have known Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, Ephraim, you are a prostitute— Israel is defiled!