Hosea 6:10
Good News Translation
I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: my people have defiled themselves by worshiping idols.

New Revised Standard Version
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s whoredom is there, Israel is defiled.

Contemporary English Version
I have seen a terrible thing in Israel--you are unfaithful and unfit to worship me.

New American Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there is found Ephraim’s prostitution, Israel is defiled.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Jeremiah 2:12,13 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord. . . .

Jeremiah 5:30,31 Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land. . . .

Jeremiah 18:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess?

Jeremiah 23:14 And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.

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Hosea 4:11,17 Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding. . . .

Hosea 5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me for now Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.

1 Kings 12:8 But he left the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that had been brought up with him, and stood before him.

1 Kings 15:30 Because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he had sinned, and wherewith he had made Israel to sin, and for the offence wherewith he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel.

2 Kings 17:7 For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord, their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao, king of Egypt; and they worshipped strange gods.

Jeremiah 3:6 And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there.

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

Context
Israel and Judah are Unrepentant
9And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out of Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness. 10I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.11And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back the captivity of my people.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:30
Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land.

Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?

Jeremiah 18:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess?

Jeremiah 23:14
And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.

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 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me for now Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.

Hosea 6:9
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