Hosea 5:2 The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter. I will discipline all of them.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter. I will discipline all of them.

English Standard Version
And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.

New American Standard Bible
The revolters have gone deep in depravity, But I will chastise all of them.

King James Bible
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Rebels are deeply involved in slaughter; I will be a punishment for all of them.

International Standard Version
The rebels are deep into their slaughter; I am punishing them all.

American Standard Version
And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you have turned aside victims into the depth: and I am, the teacher of them all.

Darby Bible Translation
And they have plunged themselves in the corruption of apostasy, but I will be a chastiser of them all.

Young's Literal Translation
And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I am a fetter to them all.

Cross References

Isaiah 29:15
Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

Hosea 4:2
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood touches blood.

Hosea 6:9
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

Hosea 9:15
All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are rebels.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:1-7 The piercing eye of God saw secret liking and disposition to sin, the love the house of Israel had to their sins, and the dominion their sins had over them. Pride makes men obstinate in other sins. And as Judah was treading in the same steps, they would fall with Israel. By dealing treacherously with the Lord, men only deceive themselves. Those that go to seek the Lord with their flocks and their herds only, and not with their hearts and souls, cannot expect to find him; nor shall any speed who do not seek the Lord while he may be found. See how much it is our concern to seek God early, now, while it is the accepted time, and the day of salvation.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. revolters—apostates.

profound—deeply rooted [Calvin] and sunk to the lowest depths, excessive in their idolatry (Ho 9:9; Isa 31:6) [Henderson]. From the antithesis (Ho 5:3), "not hid from me," I prefer explaining, profoundly cunning in their idolatry. Jeroboam thought it a profound piece of policy to set up golden calves to represent God in Dan and Beth-el, in order to prevent Israel's heart from turning again to David's line by going up to Jerusalem to worship. So Israel's subsequent idolatry was grounded by their leaders on various pleas of state expediency (compare Isa 29:15).

to … slaughter—He does not say "to sacrifice," for their so-called sacrifices were butcheries rather than sacrifices; there was nothing sacred about them, being to idols instead of to the holy God.

though—Maurer translates, "and (in spite of their hope of safety through their slaughter of victims to idols) I will be a chastisement to them all." English Version is good sense: They have deeply revolted, notwithstanding all my prophetical warnings.