New King James Version
Hosea 5:10
10“The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out My wrath on them like water.
Hosea 5:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
- New International Version (NIV)Judah’s leaders are like those who move boundary stones. I will pour out my wrath on them like a flood of water.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The princes of Judah have become like those who move the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“The leaders of Judah have become like thieves. So I will pour my anger on them like a waterfall.
Context of Hosea 5:10
8“Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, The trumpet in Ramah! Cry aloud at Beth Aven, ‘Look behind you, O Benjamin!’ 9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure. “The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out My wrath on them like water. 11Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, Because he willingly walked by human precept. 12Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth, And to the house of Judah like rottenness.
Read all of Hosea 5Hosea 5:10 word by word
הָיוּ֙ שָׂרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה כְּמַסִּיגֵ֖י גְּב֑וּל עֲלֵיהֶ֕ם אֶשְׁפּ֥וֹךְ כַּמַּ֖יִם עֶבְרָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 5:10
- Hosea 5:5The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also stumbles with them.
- Deuteronomy 19:14“You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
- Deuteronomy 27:17‘Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor’s landmark.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
- 2 Kings 16:7So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”
- 2 Chronicles 28:16At the same time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.
- Proverbs 17:14The beginning of strife is like releasing water; Therefore stop contention before a quarrel starts.
- Proverbs 22:28Do not remove the ancient landmark Which your fathers have set.
- Psalms 32:6For this cause everyone who is godly shall pray to You In a time when You may be found; Surely in a flood of great waters They shall not come near him.
- Psalms 88:17They came around me all day long like water; They engulfed me altogether.
- Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O Lord, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.
- Matthew 7:27and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
- Luke 6:49But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.”
Commentaries on Hosea 5:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Like them that remove the bound - As execrable as they who remove the land-mark. They have leaped over law's enclosure, and scaled all the walls of right; they have despised and broken all laws, human and Divine.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound - All avaricious encroachment on the paternal inheritance of others, was strictly forbidden by God in the law, under the penalty of His curse. “Cursed is he that removeth his neighbor‘s landmark” Deuteronomy 27:17. “The princes of Judah,” i. e., those who were the king‘s counselors and chief in the civil polity, had committed sin, like to this. Since the prophet had just pronounced the desolation…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
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10those who move boundary stones: The Lord owned the land and entrusted it to the tribes after the conquest (see Joshua 13:8–19:51). Moving a boundary marker and changing God's allotted boundaries was stealing from God (Deuteronomy 19:14). Such an act rightly brought divine punishment (Deuteronomy 27:17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-109-10. Israel is referred to in Ho 5:9, Judah in Ho 5:10. the day of rebuke--the day when I shall chastise him. among the tribes of Israel have I made known--proving that the scene of Hosea's labor was among the ten tribes. that which shall surely be--namely, the coming judgment here foretold. It is no longer a conditional decree, leaving a hope of pardon on repentance; it is absolute, for Ephraim is hopelessly impenitent.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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