Hosea 5:3
Good News Translation
I know what Israel is like--she cannot hide from me. She has been unfaithful, and her people are unfit to worship me."

New Revised Standard Version
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled.

Contemporary English Version
Israel, I know all about you, and because of your unfaithfulness, I find you unacceptable.

New American Bible
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me: Now, Ephraim, you have practiced prostitution, Israel is defiled.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me for now Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me for now Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.

know.

Amos 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

Revelation 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or hot.

Ephraim.

Hosea 5:9,11,13 Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall surely be. . . .

Hosea 6:4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.

Hosea 8:11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.

Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.

Hosea 13:1 When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal, and died.

Genesis 48:19,20 But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I know: and this also shall become a people, and shall be multiplied; but his younger brother shall be greater than he; and his seed shall grow into nations. . . .

Deuteronomy 33:17 His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the horns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the ends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the thousands of Manasses.

Isaiah 7:5,8,9,17 Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying: . . .

thou.

Hosea 4:17,18 Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone. . . .

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

1 Kings 14:14-16 And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time: . . .

Ezekiel 23:5-21 And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her, . . .

Context
God's Judgment on Israel and Judah
2And you have turned aside victims into the depth and I am the teacher of them all. 3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me for now Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.4They will not set their thoughts to return to their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.…
Cross References
Isaiah 7:16
For before the child know to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of the face of her two kings.

Ezekiel 23:7
And she committed her fornications with those chosen men, all sons of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all them on whom she doted.

Hosea 1:2
The beginning of the Lord's speaking by Hosea: and the Lord said to Hosea: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and have of her children of fornications: for the land by fornication shall depart from the Lord.

Hosea 6:10
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.

Amos 3:2
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

Amos 5:12
Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

Hosea 5:2
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