Hosea 5:11
Oppressed, is Ephraim, crushed in judgment,—because he hath, wilfully, walked after falsehood.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
In Context
12But, I, was like a moth, to Ephraim,—and like rotten wood to the house of Judah.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:26And Jeroboam said in his heart,—Now, shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, came Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali—and carried them away captive to Assyria.
Micah 6:16For strictly observed are the statutes of Omri, and every doing of the house of Ahab, and ye have walked in their counsels,—to the end I may give thee up to desolation, and her inhabitants to hissing, that, the reproach of peoples, ye may bear.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 5:9-15
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 758.) 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin. 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. 10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. 12 Therefore will I be unto… Read the whole commentary →