Hosea 10:2
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New International Version (©1984)
Their heart is deceitful, and now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will demolish their altars and destroy their sacred stones.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The hearts of the people are fickle; they are guilty and must be punished. The LORD will break down their altars and smash their sacred pillars.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and destroy their pillars.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Their heart is faithless; Now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars And destroy their sacred pillars.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They are hypocrites. Now they must take their punishment. God will tear down their altars and destroy their stone markers.

King James Bible
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

American King James Version
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

American Standard Version
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.

Bible in Basic English
Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars.

Darby Bible Translation
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will break down their altars, he will destroy their statues.

English Revised Version
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he shall smite their altars, he shall spoil their pillars.

Webster's Bible Translation
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

World English Bible
Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

Young's Literal Translation
Their heart hath been divided, now they are guilty, He doth break down their altars, He doth destroy their standing-pillars.

Geneva Study Bible

Their heart is {c} divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

(c) That is, from God, by serving their false gods.

Wesley's Notes

10:2 Is divided - From God and his worship. Faulty - As this was their sin, so the effects hereof should manifestly prove them faulty. He - God.

King James Translators' Notes

Their heart...: or, He hath divided their heart

break...: Heb. behead

images: Heb. statues, or, standing images

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. heart . divided-(1Ki 18:21; Mt 6:24; Jas 4:8).

now-that is, soon.

he-Jehovah.

break down-"cut off," namely the heads of the victims. Those altars, which were the scene of cutting off the victims' heads, shall be themselves cut off.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:1-8 A vine is only valuable for its fruit; but Israel now brought no fruit to perfection. Their hearts were divided. God is the Sovereign of the heart; he will have all, or none. Were the stream of the heart wholly after God, it would run strongly, and bear down all before it. Their pretences to covenant with God were false. Even the proceeding of justice was as poisonous hemlock. Alas, how empty a vine is the visible church even at this day! But all earthly prosperity is but a collection of bubbles, soon destroyed like foam upon the water. Sinners will in vain seek shelter from that Judge, whom they now despise as a Saviour.


1 Kings 18:21 Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people did not answer him a word.
Hosea 10:8 Also the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed; Thorn and thistle will grow on their altars; Then they will say to the mountains, "Cover us!" And to the hills, "Fall on us!"
Hosea 13:16 Samaria will be held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, Their little ones will be dashed in pieces, And their pregnant women will be ripped open.
Micah 5:13 "I will cut off your carved images And your sacred pillars from among you, So that you will no longer bow down To the work of your hands.
Zephaniah 1:5 "And those who bow down on the housetops to the host of heaven, And those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom, (NASB ©1995)

Altars Bear Break Broken Deceitful Demolish Destroy Divided Faithless False. Faulty Found Guilt Guilty Heart Images Mind Pillars rs Sacred Smite Spoil Standing-Pillars Statues Stones Waste


Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

Their heart is divided. or, He hath divided their heart. 7:8 1Ki 18:21 Isa 44:18 Zep 1:5 Mt 6:24 Lu 16:13 2Th 2:11,12 Jas 1:8 4:4 1Jo 2:15 Re 3:15,16

break down. Heb. behead. 5-8 8:5,6 1Sa 5:4 Jer 43:13 Mic 5:13 Zec 13:2

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