Hosea 5:2
New International Version
The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter. I will discipline all of them.

New Living Translation
You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia Grove. But I will settle with you for what you have done.

English Standard Version
And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.

Berean Standard Bible
The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.

King James Bible
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

New King James Version
The revolters are deeply involved in slaughter, Though I rebuke them all.

New American Standard Bible
And the rebels have gone deep in depravity, But I will discipline all of them.

NASB 1995
The revolters have gone deep in depravity, But I will chastise all of them.

NASB 1977
And the revolters have gone deep in depravity, But I will chastise all of them.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the revolters have dug deep into slaughtering, But I will chastise all of them.

Amplified Bible
The revolters have gone deep into depravity, But I [the LORD God] will chastise them all.

Christian Standard Bible
Rebels are deeply involved in slaughter; I will be a punishment for all of them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Rebels are deeply involved in slaughter; I will be a punishment for all of them.

American Standard Version
And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.

Contemporary English Version
At the place of worship you were a treacherous pit, and I will punish you.

English Revised Version
And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You are deeply involved in sin. So I will punish all of you.

Good News Translation
a deep pit at Acacia City, and I will punish all of you.

International Standard Version
The rebels are deep into their slaughter; I am punishing them all.

Majority Standard Bible
The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.

NET Bible
Those who revolt are knee-deep in slaughter, but I will discipline them all.

New Heart English Bible
The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

World English Bible
The rebels are deep in slaughter, but I discipline all of them.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, "" And I [am] a chain to them all.

Young's Literal Translation
And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I am a fetter to them all.

Smith's Literal Translation
And the rowers made deep the slaughter, and I a correction to them all.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And you have turned aside victims into the depth: and I am, the teacher of them all.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And you have led astray victims into the depths, though I am the teacher of them all.

New American Bible
a pit dug deep in Shittim. Now I will discipline them all.

New Revised Standard Version
and a pit dug deep in Shittim; but I will punish all of them.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And the hunters who hunt have laid hidden snares, but I will chastise them all.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And hunters who hunt have hid traps, but I shall chastise all of them
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And they that fall away are gone deep in making slaughter; And I am rejected of them all.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
which they that hunt the prey have fixed: but I will correct you.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
God's Judgment on Israel and Judah
1“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor. 2The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all. 3I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 2:19
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Isaiah 29:15
Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

Amos 3:10
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”

Micah 3:9-12
Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right, / who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity. / Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.” ...

Ezekiel 22:25-27
The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her. / Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. / Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

Zephaniah 3:3-4
Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning. / Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.

Matthew 23:27-28
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. / In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Luke 11:39-44
Then the Lord said, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. / You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well? / But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you. ...

Romans 1:18-32
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. / For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. / For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. ...

1 Corinthians 5:1-5
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. / And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this? / Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present. ...

Ephesians 5:11-14
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. / For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. / But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself. ...

2 Timothy 3:1-5
But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. / For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, / unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, ...

2 Peter 2:1-3
Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. / Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed. / In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

Jude 1:4
For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Revelation 2:14-16
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. / In the same way, some of you also hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. / Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.


Treasury of Scripture

And the rebels are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

the revolters.

Hosea 6:9
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

Hosea 9:15
All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

Jeremiah 6:28
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

profound.

Psalm 64:3-6
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: …

Psalm 140:1-5
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; …

Isaiah 29:15
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

though.

Hosea 6:5
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

Isaiah 1:5
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

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Hosea 5
1. The judgments of God are denounced against the priests, people, and princes,
9. both of Israel and Judah, for their manifold sins.
15. An intimation is given of mercy on their repentance.














The rebels
This phrase refers to those who have turned away from God's commandments and have chosen a path of disobedience. In the Hebrew text, the word used here is "sârâr," which conveys a sense of stubbornness and rebellion. Historically, this term would have been understood in the context of Israel's repeated cycles of apostasy, where the people of God continually turned to idolatry and away from the covenant established with Yahweh. The "rebels" are not just individuals but represent a collective turning away from divine authority, highlighting the seriousness of their spiritual infidelity.

are deep in slaughter
The imagery here is vivid and stark, suggesting not only physical violence but also a deep-seated spiritual corruption. The Hebrew word "shachat" can mean to destroy or corrupt, indicating that the rebellion has led to a profound moral and spiritual decay. This phrase may also allude to the sacrificial practices that were corrupted by idolatrous worship, where the people engaged in rituals that were abominable to God. The depth of their actions signifies a complete immersion in sin, far removed from the holiness that God requires.

but I will chastise
Here, the focus shifts to God's response to the rebellion. The Hebrew word "yasar" is used, which means to discipline or correct. This is not merely punitive but is intended to bring about repentance and restoration. In the context of the covenant relationship, God's chastisement is an act of love, aiming to bring His people back to righteousness. It reflects the divine justice and mercy that seeks to correct and guide rather than simply punish.

all of them
This phrase underscores the comprehensive nature of God's judgment. No one who is guilty of rebellion will escape His chastisement. It emphasizes the impartiality and thoroughness of divine justice. Historically, this would have been a sobering reminder to the Israelites of the consequences of their collective sin. It serves as a call to repentance for the entire community, highlighting that God's desire is for all to return to Him and be restored.

(2) Are profound to make slaughter.--Ewald, followed recently by Nowack, is right in interpreting the Heb. text as meaning, "The apostates have gone deep in iniquity." In the last clause the Authorised version is again incorrect. Render, But I (i.e., Jehovah) am chastisement to them all. The deceivers and deceived shall alike perish.

Verse 2. - And the revolters are profound to make slaughter (or, profuse in murders or in sacrifices, or in dealing corruptly), though I have been a rebuker of them all (rather, but I am [bent upon] chastisement for them all). The literal rendering of the first clause is, slaughtering they have made deep, which is an idiom analogous to "they have deeply revolted;" literally, "they have made revolting deep" (Isaiah 31:6). The slaughtering, though understood by Wunsche of sacrifices, is rather meant of the destruction and carnage which the revolters caused to the people. Rashi explains it literally in this way: "I said, Every one that goes not up to the stated feasts transgresses a positive precept; but they decree that every one who goes up to the stated feasts shall be slain." This seems to imply that liers-in-wait were set probably on Mizpah and Tabor, the places mentioned in the preceding verse, to slay the Israelites that were found going up to the feasts at Jerusalem. Aben Ezra, taking this second verse as continuing the sentiment of the first, interprets as follows: "Ye have been a snare on Mizpah that ye might not allow them to go up to the feasts to the house of the Lord; and to slay (victims) in the usual way." The revolters or apostates he takes to be the worshippers of Baal. "They made deep," he adds in his exposition, "the snares, those that are mentioned, that passers-by might not see them; but I will chastise all of them for this evil which they have done, since it is not hidden from me why they have hid (made) it so deep." The slaughtering is thus understood by Aben Ezra of slaying the sacrificial victims. Similarly Kimchi interprets thus: "He says that the revolters who are the worshippers of idols, who depart from the ways of God - blessed be he! - and kern his service, like a woman who is a revolter from under her husband, have made deep their revolt, slaying and sacrificing to idols." lie would understand the slaughtering neither of victims with Kimchi and Aben Ezra; nor of literally slaying Israelites to prevent persons going up to Jerusalem, the proper seat of Jehovah's worship; but of the destructive consequences which the conduct of these apostates brought on the people. The work of chastisement God now takes in hand in good earnest. Droppings of the coming shower there had been; but now the full flood is to descend, for God presents himself to misleaders and misled alike under the sole aspect of rebuke. "I," he says, "am chastisement" (give myself to it). A like form of expression occurs in Psalm 109:4, "I am prayer;" that is, am a man of prayer, or give royal. If to prayer. Thus Kimchi explains the idiom: "The prophet says, Say not that no man shall correct and reprove them, therefore they sin; for I am the person who reproves them all, and day by day I reprove them, but they will not hearken to me. But raani moser wants the word ish, man, as (in Psalm 109:4) raani tephilah, which we have explained raani ish tephilah."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The rebels
שֵׂטִ֖ים (śê·ṭîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7846: Swerver, perhaps revolter, deeds that swerve

are deep
הֶעְמִ֑יקוּ (he‘·mî·qū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6009: To be, deep

in slaughter;
וְשַׁחֲטָ֥ה (wə·ša·ḥă·ṭāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7819: To slaughter, beat

but I
וַאֲנִ֖י (wa·’ă·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

will chastise
מוּסָ֥ר (mū·sār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4148: Chastisement, reproof, warning, instruction, restraint

all of them.
לְכֻלָּֽם׃ (lə·ḵul·lām)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every


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