Parallel Verses
World English Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.
New American Standard Bible
Ephraim’s
King James Version
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Holman Bible
Ephraim’s promiscuity is there;
International Standard Version
I have seen a horrible evil in the house of Israel Ephraim's promiscuity. Israel is defiled.
A Conservative Version
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel. Whoredom is there in 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.
Amplified
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.
Bible in Basic English
In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;
Darby Translation
In the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: the whoredom of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.
Julia Smith Translation
In the house of Israel I saw something horrible: there the fornications to Ephraim, Israel was defiled.
King James 2000
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the harlotry of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Lexham Expanded Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen something horrible; Ephraim's unfaithfulness [is] there. Israel is defiled.
Modern King James verseion
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel; the harlotry of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Horrible things have I seen in the house of Israel: there playeth Ephraim the harlot, and 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.
New Heart English Bible
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.
The Emphasized Bible
In the house of Israel, have I seen a horrible thing, - there, the unchastity of Ephraim, defiled is Israel.
Webster
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Youngs Literal Translation
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There is the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.
Interlinear
Ra'ah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 6:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Yahweh
9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes. 10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled. 11 "Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.
Cross References
Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.
Jeremiah 5:30-31
"An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.
Jeremiah 23:14
In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.
1 Kings 12:8
But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
1 Kings 15:30
for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
2 Kings 17:7
It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
Jeremiah 2:12-13
"Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate," says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 3:6
Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
Jeremiah 18:13
Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
Ezekiel 23:5
Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,
Hosea 4:11
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!