For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Hosea 10:1 - Y'all Version Bible Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition ISRAEL IS a luxuriant vine that puts forth its [material] fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars [to idols]; according to the goodness and prosperity of their land they have made goodly pillars or obelisks [to false gods]. American Standard Version (1901) Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly pillars. Common English Bible Israel is a growing vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; the richer his land became, the more he set up sacred standing stones. Catholic Public Domain Version Israel is a leafy vine, its fruit has been suitable to him. According to the multitude of his fruit, he has multiplied altars; according to the fertility of his land, he has abounded with graven images. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath multiplied altars, according to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with idols. |
For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Your gods, Judah, are as numerous as your cities, and y’all citizens of Jerusalem have set up as many shameful incense altars to Baal as streets in the city.’
For YHWH Almighty, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.
“But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble, for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.
If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich. I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”
Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of YHWH coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
For the children of Israel will live many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
“‘Y’all must not make worthless idols, or must not raise up a carved image or a pillar. And y’all must not place a carved stone in y’all’s land to bow down to it. For I am YHWH y’all’s God.
For YHWH restores the excellency of Jacob as the excellency of Israel, for the destroyers have destroyed them and ruined their vine branches.
From now on, we don’t view anyone from a fleshly perspective. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, but now we no longer know him that way.