Hosea 5 · Verse 10

Hosea 5:10

The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Hosea 5:10, King James Version

Hosea 5:10 in other translations

BSBThe princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.
WEBThe princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
ASVThe princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
YLTPrinces of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath.
DARBYThe princes of Judah are become like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
BBEThe rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.
WebsterThe princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

What does Hosea 5:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 5:9-10

9-10. Israel is referred to in Ho 5:9, Judah in Ho 5:10. the day of rebuke--the day when I shall chastise him. among the tribes of Israel have I made known--proving that the scene of Hosea's labor was among the ten tribes. that which shall surely be--namely, the coming judgment here foretold. It is no longer a conditional decree, leaving a hope of pardon on repentance; it is absolute, for Ephraim is hopelessly…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Like them that remove the bound - As execrable as they who remove the land-mark. They have leaped over law's enclosure, and scaled all the walls of right; they have despised and broken all laws, human and Divine.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 5:8-15

The destruction of impenitent sinners is not mere talk, to frighten them, it is a sentence which will not be recalled. And it is a mercy that we have timely warning given us, that we may flee from the wrath to come. Compliance with the commandments of men, who thwart the commandments of God, ripens a people for ruin. The judgments of God are sometimes to a sinful people as a moth, and as rottenness, or as a worm; as…

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Hosea 5:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הָיוּ֙ha.Yuthey have becomeH1961
שָׂרֵ֣יsa.Rei[the] leaders ofH8269
יְהוּדָ֔הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
כְּמַסִּיגֵ֖יke.ma.si.Geilike [those who] displaceH5253
גְּב֑וּלge.Vul<of> a boundaryH1366
עֲלֵיהֶ֕ם'a.lei.Hemon themH5921
אֶשְׁפּ֥וֹךְ'esh.PokhI will pour outH8210
כַּמַּ֖יִםka.Ma.yimlike <the> waterH4325
עֶבְרָתִֽי\׃'ev.ra.Tiwrath myH5678

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Cross references for Hosea 5:10

  • Deuteronomy 19:14

    Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

  • Psalms 32:6

    For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

  • Psalms 93:3-4

    The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

  • Deuteronomy 27:17

    Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Psalms 88:17

    They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

  • Luke 6:49

    But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.

  • 2 Chronicles 28:16-22

    At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives. The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth–shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there. For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the Lord. …

  • Matthew 7:27

    And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

  • Proverbs 17:14

    The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

  • Proverbs 22:28

    Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

  • 2 Kings 16:7-9

    So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me. And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

  • Ezekiel 7:8

    Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
princes.
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remove.
De 19:14; 27:17; 2Ki 16:7-9; 2Ch 28:16-22; Pr 17:14; 22:28
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Ps 32:6; 88:17; 93:3,4; Mt 7:27; Lu 6:49

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Context

  • Hosea 5:9

    Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

  • Hosea 5:10

    The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

  • Hosea 5:11

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

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Hosea 5:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Los príncipes de Judá fueron como los que traspasan mojones: derramaré sobre ellos como agua mi ira.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Les princes de Juda sont comme ceux qui reculent les bornes: je répandrai sur eux ma fureur comme de l’eau.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Die Fürsten von Juda sind wie diejenigen geworden, welche die Grenze verrücken; über sie werde ich meinen Grimm ausgießen wie Wasser.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Facti sunt principes Juda quasi assumentes terminum; super eos effundam quasi aquam iram meam.