Hosea 5:11

Modern

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

Traditional

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

Literal

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was willing to walk after worthless idols.

Latin

Calumniam patiens est Ephraim, fractus judicio, quoniam cœpit abire post sordes.

Hebrew

English

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

Theme notes and profiles

Micah 6:16
You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
Deuteronomy 28:33
A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
1 Kings 12:26–33
Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.
2 Kings 15:16–20
At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.
Amos 5:11–12
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.

Ephraim: Second son of Joseph, and a tribe of Israel