Hosea 10:13

Ye have plowed resha, 1 ye have reaped avlah; 1 ye have eaten the pri kachash (fruit of lies); 1 because thou didst trust in thy way, 1 in the multitude of thy gibborim (mighty men). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

In Context

12Sow to yourselves in tzedakah, 1 reap in chesed; 1 break up your fallow ground; 1 for it is time to seek Hashem, 1 till He come and rain tzedek upon you. 1

14Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, 1 and all thy fortresses shall be devastated, 1 as Shalman devastated Beit-Arbel on the yom milchamah; 1 the em were dashed in pieces with their banim. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:14As saith the mashal (proverb) of the ancients, Resha (wickedness) proceedeth from the resha'im; but mine yad shall not be upon thee.

Psalms 33:16There is no melech saved by the multitude of an army; 1 a gibbor is not delivered by rav ko'ach. 1

Psalms 62:10Truly Bnei Adam (those of low estate) are hevel (vanity), 1 and Bnei Ish (those who are highborn) are kazav (a lie); 1 they go up in the balances; 1 they are altogether lighter than hevel (vanity). 1

Proverbs 12:19The lip of emes shall be established forever, 1 but a lashon sheker is but for a moment. 1

Proverbs 19:5An ed shekarim (false witness) shall not go unpunished, 1 and he that speaketh kezavim (lies) shall not escape. 1

Ecclesiastes 9:11I returned, and saw under the shemesh, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the gibborim, neither yet lechem to the chachamim, nor yet osher to the intelligent, nor yet chen (favor) to the experts; but et (time) and pega (chance) happeneth to them all.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 10:10-15

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 730.) 9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them. 10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows. 11 And Ephraim is as a heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob… Read the whole commentary →

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