Hosea 5:2
And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, || And I [am] a chain to them all.
Literal Standard 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
Cross References
Psalms 64:3Who sharpened their tongue as a sword, || They directed their arrow—a bitter word.
Isaiah 1:5Why are you struck anymore? You add apostasy! Every head has become diseased, and every heart [is] sick.
Jeremiah 5:3YHWH, Your eyes, are they not on steadfastness? You have struck them, and they have not grieved, || You have consumed them, || They have refused to receive instruction, || They made their faces harder than a rock, || They have refused to turn back.
Jeremiah 11:18And, O YHWH, cause me to know, and I know, || Then You have showed me their doings.
Jeremiah 25:3“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, and to this day—this twenty-third year—the word of YHWH has been to me, and I speak to you, rising early and speaking, and you have not listened;
Hosea 6:5Therefore I have hewed by prophets, || I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, || And My judgments go forth to the 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 →