Hosea 5:11

Hosea 5:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
• New International Version (NIV)Ephraim is oppressed, trampled in judgment, intent on pursuing idols.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, Because he willingly walked by human precept.

Context of Hosea 5:11

9Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I declare what is certain. 10The princes of Judah are like those who move a boundary marker; I will pour out My wrath on them like [an unrestrained flood of] water. Ephraim is oppressed; he is broken and crushed by [divine] judgment, Because he was determined to follow man’s command (vanities, filth, secular precepts). 12Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim And like dry rot to the house of Judah [in My judgment against them]. 13When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria [instead of the Lord] And sent to [Assyria’s] great King Jareb [for help]. But he cannot heal you Nor will he cure you of your wound [received in judgment].

Hosea 5:11 word by word

עָשׁ֥וּק אֶפְרַ֖יִם רְצ֣וּץ מִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּ֣י הוֹאִ֔יל הָלַ֖ךְ אַחֲרֵי־צָֽו׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Ephraimאֶפְרַ֫יִם'ephrayim · EphraimH669
• oppressedעָשַׁק‛âshaq · to oppressH6231
• brokenרָצַץrâtsats · to crushH7533
• in judgmentמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justice: judgementH4941
• because he willinglyיָאַלyâ'al · be willingH2974
• walkedהָלַךְhâlak · to go: followH1980
• afterאַחַר'achar · afterH310
• the commandmentצַוtsav tsâv · commandH6673

Cross-references for Hosea 5:11

• Deuteronomy 28:33A people whom you do not know will eat the produce of your land and all the products of your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and exploited and crushed continually.
• 2 Kings 15:16Then Menahem struck [the town of] Tiphsah and all who were in it and its borders from Tirzah; [he attacked it] because they did not surrender to him; so he struck it and ripped up all the women there who were pregnant.
• Amos 5:11Therefore, because you impose heavy rent on the poor And demand a tribute (food-tax) of grain from them, Though you have built [luxurious] houses of square stone, You will not live in them; You have planted beautiful vineyards, but you will not drink their wine.
• 1 Kings 12:26Jeroboam [doubted God’s promise to him and] said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
• Micah 6:16For [you have kept] the statutes of Omri [the idolatrous king], And all the works of the [wicked] house (dynasty) of Ahab; And you walk in their counsels and policies. Therefore, I shall hand you over for destruction and horror And your [city’s] inhabitants for ridicule, And you shall bear the rebuke and scorn of My people.”

Commentaries on Hosea 5:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Walked after the commandment - Jeroboam's commandment to worship his calves at Dan and Beth-el. Many of them were not forced to do this, they did it willingly.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment - Literally, “crushed in judgment.” Holy Scripture, elsewhere also, “combines” these same two words, rendered “oppressed” and “crushed,” in speaking of man‘s oppression by man. Ephraim preferred man‘s commands and laws to God‘s; they obeyed man and set God at nought; therefore they should suffer at man‘s hands, who, while he equally neglected God‘s will, enforced his own. The “commandment,” which “Ephraim…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-15Verses 8-15 The destruction of impenitent sinners is not mere talk, to frighten them, it is a sentence which will not be recalled. And it is a mercy that we have timely warning given us, that we may flee from the wrath to come. Compliance with the commandments of men, who thwart the commandments of God, ripens a people for ruin. The judgments of God are sometimes to a sinful people as a moth, and as rottenness, or as a worm; as these consume the clothes…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. broken in judgment--namely, the "judgment" of God on him (Ho 5:1). walked after the commandment--Jeroboam's, to worship the calves (2Ki 10:28-33). Compare Mi 6:16, "the statutes of Omri," namely, idolatrous statutes. We ought to obey God rather than men (Ac 5:29). Jerome reads "filthiness." The Septuagint gives the sense, not the literal translation: "after vanities."Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• Ephraim
• Ephraim, Ephraimite
• Profound
• Rebuke
• Hosea
• Zechariah, Book of

Commentaries on Hosea 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings