Hosea 5:2
Judgment belongs with you because you have been a snare set at Mizpah and a net spread out on Tabor. You dug a deep trap in Shittim, but I will punish you for all these things you have done.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
In Context
1“Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, members of the royal family!
Cross References
Psalms 64:3What they say cuts like swords; they fire off poisonous words like arrows.
Isaiah 1:5Are you wanting to be punished? Are you going to continue to rebel? The whole of your head is damaged, and your heart is totally giving out.
Jeremiah 5:3Lord, aren't you always looking for faithfulness? You beat them, but they didn't care. You just about destroyed them, but they refused to accept your discipline. They were stubborn, hard as rock, and they wouldn't repent.
Jeremiah 11:18The Lord told me about it, so I knew. Then he showed me what they were actually doing.
Jeremiah 25:3From the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah until now, twenty-three years in total, messages from the Lord have come to me, and I have told you what he said time and again, but you have not listened.
Hosea 6:5So I cut you down through the prophets; I killed you with my words. My judgment shines out like a light.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 5:2-8
Charge against Israel and Judah; Judgments Threatened. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. 2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all. 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. 4 They will not frame their doings to turn… Read the whole commentary →