New Living Translation
Hosea 5:10
10“The leaders of Judah have become like thieves. So I will pour my anger on them like a waterfall.
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 King James Version (NKJV)“The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out My wrath on them like water.
Context of Hosea 5:10
8“Sound the alarm in Gibeah! Blow the trumpet in Ramah! Raise the battle cry in Beth-aven! Lead on into battle, O warriors of Benjamin! 9One thing is certain, Israel: On your day of punishment, you will become a heap of rubble. “The leaders of Judah have become like thieves. So I will pour my anger on them like a waterfall. 11The people of Israel will be crushed and broken by my judgment because they are determined to worship idols. 12I will destroy Israel as a moth consumes wool. I will make Judah as weak as rotten wood.
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 5:5“The arrogance of Israel testifies against her; Israel and Ephraim will stumble under their load of guilt. Judah, too, will fall with them.
- Deuteronomy 19:14“When you arrive in the land the Lord your God is giving you as your special possession, you must never steal anyone’s land by moving the boundary markers your ancestors set up to mark their property.
- Deuteronomy 27:17‘Cursed is anyone who steals property from a neighbor by moving a boundary marker.’ And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.’
- 2 Kings 16:7King Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria with this message: “I am your servant and your vassal. Come up and rescue me from the attacking armies of Aram and Israel.”
- 2 Chronicles 28:16At that time King Ahaz of Judah asked the king of Assyria for help.
- Proverbs 17:14Starting a quarrel is like opening a floodgate, so stop before a dispute breaks out.
- Proverbs 22:28Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers set up by previous generations.
- Psalms 32:6Therefore, let all the godly pray to you while there is still time, that they may not drown in the floodwaters of judgment.
- Psalms 88:17They swirl around me like floodwaters all day long. They have engulfed me completely.
- Psalms 93:3The floods have risen up, O Lord. The floods have roared like thunder; the floods have lifted their pounding waves.
- Matthew 7:27When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”
- Luke 6:49But anyone who hears and doesn’t obey is like a person who builds a house right on the ground, without a foundation. When the floods sweep down against that house, it will collapse into a heap of ruins.”
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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