Hosea 6:10
New International Version
I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.

New Living Translation
Yes, I have seen something horrible in Ephraim and Israel: My people are defiled by prostituting themselves with other gods!

English Standard Version
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.

Berean Standard Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.

King James Bible
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

New King James Version
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: There is the harlotry of Ephraim; Israel is defiled.

New American Standard Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s infidelity is there, Israel has defiled itself.

NASB 1995
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.

NASB 1977
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.

Legacy Standard Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen an appalling thing; Ephraim’s harlotry is there; Israel has defiled itself.

Amplified Bible
I have seen a horrible thing [sins of every kind] in the house of Israel! Ephraim’s prostitution (idolatry) is there; Israel has defiled itself.

Christian Standard Bible
I have seen something horrible in the house of Israel: Ephraim’s promiscuity is there; Israel is defiled.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I have seen something horrible in the house of Israel: Ephraim’s promiscuity is there; Israel is defiled.

American Standard Version
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In the house of Israel I have seen a stupefying wonder; there Aphreim committed whoredom and Israel was defiled

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I have seen horrible things there, even the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;

Contemporary English Version
I have seen a terrible thing in Israel--you are unfaithful and unfit to worship me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.

English Revised Version
In the house of Israel I have seen an horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I have seen horrible things in the nation of Israel. Ephraim is acting like a prostitute, and Israel is unclean.

Good News Translation
I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: my people have defiled themselves by worshiping idols.

International Standard Version
I have seen a horrible evil in the house of Israel— Ephraim's promiscuity. Israel is defiled.

JPS Tanakh 1917
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; There harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Literal Standard Version
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, | There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim—Israel is defiled.

Majority Standard Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.

New American Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there is found Ephraim’s prostitution, Israel is defiled.

NET Bible
I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself.

New Revised Standard Version
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s whoredom is there, Israel is defiled.

New Heart English Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

World English Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.

Young's Literal Translation
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There is the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Israel and Judah are Unrepentant
9Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities. 10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled. 11Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 5:30
A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.

Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

Jeremiah 18:13
Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.

Jeremiah 23:14
And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah."

Ezekiel 23:7
She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.

Hosea 5:3
I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.


Treasury of Scripture

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Jeremiah 2:12,13
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD…

Jeremiah 5:30,31
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; …

Jeremiah 18:13
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

there.

Hosea 4:11,17
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart…

Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

1 Kings 12:8
But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:

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Hosea 6
1. Exhortations to repent and hope in God.
4. A lamentation over those who had sinned after conviction.
5. Reproofs of obstinate sinners, and threats against them.














(10) House of Israel.--This phrase means Ephraim and Judah subsequently discriminated. The "horrible thing" refers to polluting idolatry. This peculiar word occurs again in Jeremiah. According to the punctuation of the Hebrew the reciter hesitates before pronouncing the "horrible thing" which grated through his teeth.

Verse 10. - I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. The house of Israel comprises

(1) the ten tribes of the northern kingdom, according to some; it seems more correct

(2) to understand it of the whole nation, including both the northern and southern kingdoms, in which case the remainder of the verse relates to the northern kingdom of the ten tribes, and the succeeding verse to the southern kingdom of the two tribes. Further, Israel is not synonymous with the parallel Ephraim, as Keil thinks; the latter is the principal tribe which led the way in Israel's apostasy. The "horrible thing" comprehends every sort of crime and abomination; while the" whoredom," literal or spiritual, is specified as an example thereof. (For the explanation of "there," see on ver. 7.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
In the house
בְּבֵית֙ (bə·ḇêṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

of Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

I have seen
רָאִ֖יתִי (rā·’î·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

a horrible thing:
שַׁעֲרֽוּרִיָּ֑ה (ša·‘ă·rū·rî·yāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 8186: A horror, horrible thing

There
שָׁ֚ם (m)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

Ephraim
לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם (lə·’ep̄·ra·yim)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 669: Ephraim -- a son of Joseph, also his descendants and their territory

practices prostitution
זְנ֣וּת (zə·nūṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2184: Adultery, infidelity, idolatry

[and] Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

is defiled.
נִטְמָ֖א (niṭ·mā)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2930: To be or become unclean


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