English Standard Version
Hosea 13:12
12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
Hosea 13:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
- New International Version (NIV)The guilt of Ephraim is stored up, his sins are kept on record.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is stored up.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Ephraim’s guilt has been collected, and his sin has been stored up for punishment.
Context of Hosea 13:12
10Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers— those of whom you said, "Give me a king and princes"? 11I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath. The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store. 13The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son, for at the right time he does not present himself at the opening of the womb. 14I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
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צָרוּר֙ עֲוֹ֣ן אֶפְרָ֔יִם צְפוּנָ֖ה חַטָּאתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Hosea 13:12
- Deuteronomy 32:34"'Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
- Job 14:17my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
- Job 21:19You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.
- Romans 2:5But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Commentaries on Hosea 13:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up - It is registered in my court of justice; the death warrant is in store, and will be produced in due time. Though there be not at present the judgment inflicted which such glaring transgressions demand, yet it will surely come. Such crimes cannot go unpunished.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up - (As in a bag or purse, and so, “treasured up”), as Job saith, using the same word, “My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and Thou sewest up mine iniquity.” Job 14:17. “His sin” is “hid” i. e., as people lay up hidden treasure, to be brought out in its season. What Job feared for himself; was to be the portion of Ephraim. All his sins should be counted, laid by, heaped up. No one of them should escape His eye who…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-16Verses 9-16 Israel had destroyed himself by his rebellion; but he could not save himself, his help was from the Lord only. This may well be applied to the case of spiritual redemption, from that lost state into which all have fallen by wilful sins. God often gives in displeasure what we sinfully desire. It is the happiness of the saints, that, whether God gives or takes away, all is in love. But it is the misery of the wicked, that, whether God gives or…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12God had carefully stored up the record of Israel’s sin and guilt. He could not escape his punishment.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. bound up ... hid--Treasures, meant to be kept, are bound up and hidden; that is, do not flatter yourselves, because of the delay, that I have forgotten your sin. Nay (Ho 9:9), Ephraim's iniquity is kept as it were safely sealed up, until the due time comes for bringing it forth for punishment (De 32:34; Job 14:17; 21:19; compare Ro 2:5). Opposed to "blotting out the handwriting against" the sinner (Col 2:14).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 13
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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