God’s Word Translation
Hosea 5:11
11Ephraim is oppressed—crushed by punishment, because its people are determined to chase idols.
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 wasteland when the time for punishment comes. I will make the truth known among the tribes of Israel. 10The leaders of Judah are like those who move boundary markers. I will pour my fury on them like water. Ephraim is oppressed—crushed by punishment, because its people are determined to chase idols. 12I will destroy Ephraim as a moth destroys clothing. I will destroy the nation of Judah as rot destroys wood. 13“When Ephraim saw that he was sick and when Judah saw his own wounds, Ephraim went to Assyria to ask the great king for help. But the king couldn’t cure them or heal their wounds.
Read all of Hosea 5Hosea 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 28:33People you never knew will eat what your land and your hard work have produced. As long as you live, you will know nothing but oppression and abuse.
- 2 Kings 15:16Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah, everyone there, and its territory. Because the city didn’t open its gates for him, he attacked it and ripped open all its pregnant women.
- Amos 5:11You trample on the poor and take their wheat from them for taxes. That is why you build houses from hand-cut stones, but you will not live in them. You plant beautiful vineyards, but you will not drink their wine.
- 1 Kings 12:26He said to himself, “The kingdom will probably return to David’s dynasty now.
- Micah 6:16You have kept Omri’s laws and all the practices of the descendants of Ahab, and you have followed their advice. That is why I will ruin you. Your people will be ridiculed. You will bear the disgrace 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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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
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