Hosea 13:12
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up. His sin is laid up in store.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
In Context
11I have given thee a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.
Cross References
Job 14:17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou fasten up my iniquity.
Romans 2:5But according to thy hardness, and thy impenitent heart, thou store up wrath to thyself in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God,
Matthew Henry on Hosea 13:10-16
The Folly of Israel; Promises of Mercy. ( b. c. 722.) 9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. 10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? 11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. 12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid. 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the… Read the whole commentary →