Hosea 10:2 Their heart is deceitful, and now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will demolish their altars and destroy their sacred stones.

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Parallel Verses

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.

English Standard Version
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
Their heart is faithless; Now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars And destroy 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Cross References

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

Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

Hosea 10:8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

Hosea 12:11
Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

Micah 5:13
Your graven images also will I cut off, and your standing images out of the middle of you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

Zephaniah 1:5
And them that worship the host of heaven on the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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.