KJV King James Version
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
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Hosea 5:7
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.
WEB World English Bible
They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
ASV American Standard Version
They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Against Jehovah they dealt treacherously, For strange sons they have begotten, Now consume them doth a month with their portions.
Surrounding context — Hosea 5
4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms [is] in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
5 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find [him]; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, [and] the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud [at] Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: [therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
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בַּיהוָ֣הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDבָּגָ֔דוּH898 · ba.gadto act treacherouslyכִּֽי־H3588 · kiforבָנִ֥יםH1121 · benson: childזָרִ֖יםH2114 · zurbe a strangerיָלָ֑דוּH3205 · ya.ladto begetעַתָּ֛הH6258 · at.tahnowיֹאכְלֵ֥םH398 · a.khalto eatחֹ֖דֶשׁH2320 · cho.deshmonthאֶת־H854 · etwithחֶלְקֵיהֶֽם׃ סH2506 · che.leqportion
Cross-references
Hosea 6:7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.Isaiah 48:8Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time [that] thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.Ezekiel 12:28Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.Hosea 2:4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of whoredoms.Jeremiah 3:20Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.Psalm 144:7Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;Psalm 144:11Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood:Isaiah 59:13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.Jeremiah 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.Hosea 2:11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.Malachi 2:11-15Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.Zechariah 11:8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.Nehemiah 13:23-24In those days also saw I Jews [that] had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
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