New King James Version
Hosea 13:12
12“The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is stored up.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Ephraim’s guilt has been collected, and his sin has been stored up for punishment.
Context of Hosea 13:12
10I will be your King; Where is any other, That he may save you in all your cities? And your judges to whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’? 11I gave you a king in My anger, And took him away in My wrath. “The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is stored up. 13The sorrows of a woman in childbirth shall come upon him. He is an unwise son, For he should not stay long where children are born. 14“I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your destruction! Pity is hidden from My eyes.”
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צָרוּר֙ עֲוֹ֣ן אֶפְרָ֔יִם צְפוּנָ֖ה חַטָּאתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 13:12
- Deuteronomy 32:34‘Is this not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?
- Job 14:17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And You cover my iniquity.
- Job 21:19They say, ‘God lays up one’s iniquity for his children’; Let Him recompense him, that he may know it.
- Romans 2:5But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
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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