Hosea 5:7
Good News Translation
They have been unfaithful to the LORD; their children do not belong to him. So now they and their lands will soon be destroyed.

New Revised Standard Version
They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon shall devour them along with their fields.

Contemporary English Version
You have been unfaithful to me, your LORD; you have had children by prostitutes. So at the New Moon Festival, you and your crops will be destroyed.

New American Bible
They have betrayed the LORD, for they have borne illegitimate children; Now the new moon will devour them together with their fields.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have transgressed against the Lord: for they have begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have transgressed against the Lord: for they have begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

dealt.

Hosea 6:7 But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Isaiah 48:8 Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.

Isaiah 59:13 In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned away so that we went not after our God, but spoke calumny and transgression: we have conceived, and uttered from the heart, words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 3:20 But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:11 For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have greatly transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

begotten.

Nehemiah 13:23,24 In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab. . . .

Psalm 144:7,11 Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children: . . .

Malachi 2:11-15 Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. . . .

a month.

Ezekiel 12:28 Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: not one word of mine shall be prolonged any more: the word that I shall speak shall be accomplished, saith the Lord God.

Zechariah 11:8 And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

Context
God's Judgment on Israel and Judah
6With their flocks and with their herds, they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them. 7They have transgressed against the Lord: for they have begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their portions.8Blow ye the cornet in Gabaa, the trumpet in Rama: howl ye in Bethaven, behind thy back, O Benjamin.…
Cross References
Isaiah 1:14
My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 48:8
Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.

Jeremiah 3:20
But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord.

Hosea 2:4
And I will not have mercy on her children, for they are the children of fornications.

Hosea 2:11
And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.

Hosea 6:7
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Zechariah 11:8
And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

Hosea 5:6
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