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Hosea 5:10 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water. "
Hosea 5:10
Verse in Context
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8 “Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!
9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
11 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment, because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
12 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
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Hosea 5:1
"“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor."
Hosea 5:2
"The rebels are deep in slaughter, but I discipline all of them."
Hosea 5:3
"I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled."
Hosea 5:4
"Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know the LORD."
Hosea 5:5
"The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them."
Hosea 5:6
"They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD, but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them."
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