Hosea 5:11
Good News Translation
Israel is suffering oppression; she has lost land that was rightfully hers, because she insisted on going for help to those who had none to give.

New Revised Standard Version
Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after vanity.

Contemporary English Version
Israel was brutally crushed. They got what they deserved for worshiping useless idols.

New American Bible
Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by judgment, for he has willingly gone after filth!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.

oppressed.

Deuteronomy 28:33 May a people which thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours: and mayst thou always suffer oppression, and be crushed at all times.

2 Kings 15:16-20,29 Then Manahem destroyed Thapsa and all that were in it, and the borders thereof from Thersa, because they would not open to him: and he slew all the women thereof that were with child, and ripped them up. . . .

Amos 5:11,12 Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them. . . .

he willingly.

1 Kings 12:26-33 And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David, . . .

Micah 6:16 For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

Context
God's Judgment on Israel and Judah
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.12And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33
May a people which thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours: and mayst thou always suffer oppression, and be crushed at all times.

Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall yield no fruit. And if they should have issue, I will slay the best beloved fruit of their womb.

Micah 6:16
For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

Hosea 5:10
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