Hosea 10:13

You plant seeds and harvest the crops and eat them; but what I consider that you have really done is that you have planted wicked things and harvested evil things and eaten [MET] the results [IDM] of the lies that you have told. Instead of trusting in me, you have ◄depended on/trusted in► your own power and in your many soldiers.

Translation for Translators

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

12You plow your fields and plant your seeds and harvest your crops [MET], but what you need to do is to act righteously and to faithfully love me; you need to repent [MET], because it is time to try to know me, Yahweh; and if you do that, I will pour out [MET] many blessings on you.

14As a result, you will soon hear the roar of battle, and all your cities that have walls around them will be destroyed, like [SIM] Shalman’s army destroyed Beth-Arbel city in a battle, and the women in that city and their children were bashed to death.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:14“You are the king of Israel. So ◄why are you pursuing me?/you should not be pursuing me.► [RHQ] I am as harmless as [MET] a dead dog or a flea.

Psalms 33:16It is not because a king has a great army that he is able to win battles, and it is not because a soldier is very strong that he is able to defeat his enemy.

Psalms 62:10Do not trust in money gained by extorting it from others; do not try to gain anything by robbing others. If you become very wealthy, do not trust in [IDM] your money.

Proverbs 12:19When people tell [MTY] lies, others soon realize that what they said is not true [IDM]; but when people say what is true, others will remember that forever.

Proverbs 19:5Those who tell lies in court will surely be punished [LIT]; they will not escape it.

Ecclesiastes 9:11I have seen something else here on the earth: The person who runs fastest does not always win the race, the strongest soldiers do not always win the battle, the wisest people do not always have food, the smartest people do not always become rich, and people who have studied a lot are not always ◄honored/treated very specially► by others; we cannot always control what things will happen to us and where they will happen.

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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