Hosea 5:10
Good News Translation
The LORD says, "I am angry because the leaders of Judah have invaded Israel and stolen land from her. So I will pour out punishment on them like a flood.

New Revised Standard Version
The princes of Judah have become like those who remove the landmark; on them I will pour out my wrath like water.

Contemporary English Version
Judah's leaders are like crooks who move boundary markers; that's why I will flood them with my anger.

New American Bible
The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary line; Upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

princes.

Hosea 5:5 And the pride of Israel shall answer in his face: and Israel, and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, Juda also shall fall with them.

remove.

Deuteronomy 19:14 Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.

Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.

2 Kings 16:7-9 And Achaz sent messengers to Theglathphalasar, king of the Assyrians, saying: I am thy servant, and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who are risen up together against me. . . .

2 Chronicles 28:16-22 At that time king Achaz sent to the king of the Assyrians asking help. . . .

Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: and before he suffereth reproach, he forsaketh judgment.

Proverbs 22:28 Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.

like.

Psalm 32:6 For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.

Psalm 88:17 They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

Psalm 93:3,4 The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves, . . .

Matthew 7:27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.

Luke 6:49 But he that heareth and doth not is like to a man building his house upon the earth without a foundation: against which the stream beat vehemently. And immediately it fell: and the ruin of that house was great.

Context
God's Judgment on Israel and Judah
9Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall surely be. 10The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.11Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.

Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Psalm 32:6
For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.

Psalm 69:24
Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

Psalm 93:3
The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,

Psalm 93:4
With the noise of many waters. Wonderful are the surges of the sea: wonderful is the Lord on high.

Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

Ezekiel 7:8
Now very shortly I will pour out my wrath upon thee, and I will accomplish my anger in thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and I will lay upon thee all thy crimes.

Ezekiel 22:22
As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have poured out my indignation upon you.

Hosea 5:9
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