Hosea 10:10 When I please, I will punish them; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bonds for their double sin.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
When I please, I will punish them; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bonds for their double sin.

English Standard Version
When I please, I will discipline them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are bound up for their double iniquity.

New American Standard Bible
When it is My desire, I will chastise them; And the peoples will be gathered against them When they are bound for their double guilt.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will discipline them at My discretion; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their two crimes.

International Standard Version
When I'm ready, I will chasten them; and the people will gather against them, to imprison them for their two unrighteous acts."

American Standard Version
When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.

Douay-Rheims Bible
According to my desire I will chastise them: and the nations shall be gathered together against them, when they shall be chastised for their two iniquities.

Darby Bible Translation
At my pleasure will I chastise them; and the peoples shall be assembled against them, when they are bound for their two iniquities.

Young's Literal Translation
When I desire, then I do bind them, And gathered against them have peoples, When they bind themselves to their two iniquities.

Cross References

Jeremiah 16:16
Behold, I will send for many fishers, said the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Ezekiel 5:13
Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest on them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

Hosea 4:9
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

Hosea 10:9
O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

10:9-15 Because God does not desire the death and ruin of sinners, therefore in mercy he desires their chastisement. The children of iniquity still remained in Israel. The enemies would be gathered against them. It is just with God to make those know what hardships mean, who indulge themselves in ease and pleasure. Let them cleanse their hearts from all corrupt affections and lusts, and be a broken and contrite spirit. Let them abound in works of piety towards God, and of justice and charity towards one another: herein let them sow to the Spirit. Seeking the Lord is to be every day's work, but there are special occasions when to seek him. Christ shall come as the Lord our righteousness, and grant us of it abundantly. If we sow in righteousness, we shall reap according to mercy; a reward not of debt, but of grace. Even the gains of sin yield the sinner no satisfaction. As our comforts, so our confidences in the service of sin will certainly fail us. Come and seek the Lord, and thy hope in him shall not deceive thee. See what cruel work war makes. Whatever mischief is done, it is sin that does it. What miseries men's sins bring on them, even in this world!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10. my desire … chastise—expressing God's strong inclination to vindicate His justice against sin, as being the infinitely holy God (De 28:63).

the people—Foreign invaders "shall be gathered against them."

when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows—image from two oxen ploughing together side by side, in two contiguous furrows: so the Israelites shall join themselves, to unite their powers against all dangers, but it will not save them from My destroying them [Calvin]. Their "two furrows" may refer to their two places of setting up the calves, their ground of confidence, Dan and Beth-el; or, the two divisions of the nation, Israel and Judah, "in their two furrows," that is, in their respective two places of habitation; Ho 10:11, which specifies the two, favors this view. Henderson prefers the Keri (Hebrew Margin) "for their two iniquities"; and translates, "when they are bound" in captivity. English Version is best, as the image is carried out in Ho 10:11; only it is perhaps better to translate, "the people (the invaders) binding them," that is, making them captives; and so Ho 10:11 alludes to the yoke being put on the neck of Ephraim and Judah.