Hosea 6:10
Modern Translations
New International Version
I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.

New Living Translation
Yes, I have seen something horrible in Ephraim and Israel: My people are defiled by prostituting themselves with other gods!

English Standard Version
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.

Berean Study Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.

New American Standard Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s infidelity is there, Israel has defiled itself.

NASB 1995
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.

NASB 1977
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.

Amplified Bible
I have seen a horrible thing [sins of every kind] in the house of Israel! Ephraim’s prostitution (idolatry) is there; Israel has defiled itself.

Christian Standard Bible
I have seen something horrible in the house of Israel: Ephraim’s promiscuity is there; Israel is defiled.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I have seen something horrible in the house of Israel: Ephraim's promiscuity is there; Israel is defiled.

Contemporary English Version
I have seen a terrible thing in Israel--you are unfaithful and unfit to worship me.

Good News Translation
I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: my people have defiled themselves by worshiping idols.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I have seen horrible things in the nation of Israel. Ephraim is acting like a prostitute, and Israel is unclean.

International Standard Version
I have seen a horrible evil in the house of Israel— Ephraim's promiscuity. Israel is defiled.

NET Bible
I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

New King James Version
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: There is the harlotry of Ephraim; Israel is defiled.

King James 2000 Bible
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the harlotry of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

New Heart English Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.

World English Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.

American King James Version
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

American Standard Version
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

A Faithful Version
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel; the whoredom of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.

Darby Bible Translation
In the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: the whoredom of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.

English Revised Version
In the house of Israel I have seen an horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
I haue seene vileny in the house of Israel: there is ye whoredome of Ephraim: Israel is defiled.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Horrible thinges haue I seene in the house of Israel: there is the fornication of Ephraim, and Israel is defiled.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Horrible thinges haue I sene in the house of Israel, there playeth Ephraim the harlot, and Israel is defyled:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, "" There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim—Israel is defiled.

Young's Literal Translation
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There is the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.

Smith's Literal Translation
In the house of Israel I saw something horrible: there the fornications to Ephraim, Israel was defiled.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.

Catholic Public Domain Version
I have seen horrible things in the house of Israel; the fornications of Ephraim are there. Israel has been contaminated.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
In the house of Israel I have seen a stupefying wonder; there Aphreim committed whoredom and Israel was defiled

Lamsa Bible
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there Ephraim committed whoredom, and Israel was defiled.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; There harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I have seen horrible things there, even the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;
















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