Hosea 10:2
New International Version
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
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
Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and destroy their pillars.

Berean Standard Bible
Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.

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

New King James Version
Their heart is divided; Now they are held guilty. He will break down their altars; He will ruin their sacred pillars.

New American Standard Bible
Their heart is deceitful; Now they must suffer for their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars And destroy their memorial stones.

NASB 1995
Their heart is faithless; Now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars And destroy their sacred pillars.

NASB 1977
Their heart is faithless; Now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars And destroy their sacred pillars.

Legacy Standard Bible
Their heart is faithless; Now they must bear their guilt. Yahweh will break down their altars And destroy their sacred pillars.

Amplified Bible
Their heart is divided (faithless); Now they must bear their guilt and punishment. The LORD will break down [the horns of] their altars; He will destroy their idolatrous pillars.

Christian Standard Bible
Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Their heart has been divided and from now they will be condemned; he will overthrow their altars and he shall plunder their high places

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig down their altars, their pillars shall mourn.

Contemporary English Version
You are deceitful and disloyal. So you will pay for your sins, because the LORD will destroy your altars and images.

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

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

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

Good News Translation
The people whose hearts are deceitful must now suffer for their sins. God will break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.

International Standard Version
Their hearts are divided; from now on they are to be found guilty. God will tear down their altars, he will destroy their stone idols.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Their heart is divided; Now shall they bear their guilt; He will break down their altars, He will spoil their pillars.

Literal Standard Version
Their heart has been divided, now they are guilty, | He breaks down their altars, | He destroys their standing-pillars.

Majority Standard Bible
Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.

New American Bible
Their heart is false! Now they will pay for their guilt: God will break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.

NET Bible
Their heart is slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The LORD will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.

New Revised Standard Version
Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars, and destroy their pillars.

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

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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Retribution for Israel's Sin
1Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars. 2Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars. 3Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”…

Cross References
1 Kings 18:21
Then Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him." But the people did not answer a word.

Hosea 3:4
For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

Hosea 10:8
The high places of Aven will be destroyed--it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, "Cover us!" and to the hills, "Fall on us!"

Hosea 12:11
Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Micah 5:13
I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.

Zephaniah 1:5
those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,


Treasury of Scripture

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.

Hosea 7:8
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

Isaiah 44:18
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

break down.

Hosea 10:5-8
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it…

Hosea 8:5,6
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? …

1 Samuel 5:4
And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.

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Hosea 10
1. Israel is reproved and threatened for their impiety and idolatry,
12. and exhorted to repentance.














(2) Their heart is divided is the rendering of the LXX., Raschi, Aben-Ezra, and most ancient versions. But modern expositors prefer to translate "Their heart is treacherous (smooth)." The rest of the verse should run thus:--Now shall they suffer punishment. He shall break (the horns of) their altars; he shall destroy their pillars.

Verse 2. - Their heart is divided. Here their wickedness is traced to its fountainhead; its source was in the corrupt state of the heart. Their heart was

(1) divided, and so they halted between two opinions - between the worship of Jehovah and idolatry. Chalaq is taken in this signification by the Chaldee, Syriac, Septuagint, and Jerome, as also by the Hebrew commentators. The LXX. have

(a) ἐμέρισεν in the singular, which affords some support to Hitzig's rendering, "He (God)divided their heart," - but this is unsuitable and unscriptural; another

(b) reading of the same version is ἐμέρισαν, "They have divided their hearts," which is somewhat better, yet incorrect. . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Their hearts
לִבָּ֖ם (lib·bām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

are devious;
חָלַ֥ק (ḥā·laq)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2505: To be smooth, to apportion, separate

now
עַתָּ֣ה (‘at·tāh)
Adverb
Strong's 6258: At this time

they must bear their guilt.
יֶאְשָׁ֑מוּ (ye’·šā·mū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 816: To be guilty, to be punished, perish

The LORD
ה֚וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

will break down
יַעֲרֹ֣ף (ya·‘ă·rōp̄)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6202: To break the neck, to destroy

their altars
מִזְבְּחוֹתָ֔ם (miz·bə·ḥō·w·ṯām)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4196: An altar

and demolish
יְשֹׁדֵ֖ד (yə·šō·ḏêḏ)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7703: To deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin

their sacred pillars.
מַצֵּבוֹתָֽם׃ (maṣ·ṣê·ḇō·w·ṯām)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4676: Something stationed, a column, an idol


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