KJV King James Version
Israel [is] an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hosea 10:1
Israel [is] an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.
WEB World English Bible
Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
ASV American Standard Version
Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly pillars.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
An empty vine is Israel, Fruit he maketh like to himself, According to the abundance of his fruit, He hath multiplied for the altars, According to the goodness of his land, They have made goodly standing-pillars.
Surrounding context — Hosea 10
1 Israel [is] an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
גֶּ֤פֶןH1612 · ge.phenvineבּוֹקֵק֙H1238 · ba.qaqbe luxuriantיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelפְּרִ֖יH6529 · pe.rifruitיְשַׁוֶּה־H7737 · sha.vahbe likeלּ֑וֹH9033 · ohimכְּרֹ֣בH7230 · rovabundanceלְפִרְי֗וֹH6529 · pe.rifruitהִרְבָּה֙H7235 · ra.vahto multiplyלַֽמִּזְבְּח֔וֹתH4196 · miz.be.achaltarכְּט֣וֹבH2896 · tovpleasantלְאַרְצ֔וֹH776 · e.retsland: country/planetהֵיטִ֖יבוּH3190 · ya.tavbe goodמַצֵּבֽוֹת׃H4676 · mats.tse.vahpillar
Cross-references
Hosea 8:11Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.Isaiah 5:1-7Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:Philippians 2:21For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.Leviticus 26:1Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up [any] image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I [am] the LORD your God.Hosea 12:11[Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.1 Kings 14:23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.Romans 14:7-8For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.Jeremiah 2:28But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for [according to] the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.John 15:1-6I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.Ezekiel 15:1-5And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,Hosea 8:4They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew [it] not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.Hosea 12:8And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that [were] sin.Hosea 2:8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, [which] they prepared for Baal.Hosea 13:2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, [and] idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.2 Corinthians 5:16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we [him] no more.Hosea 13:6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.Zechariah 7:5-6Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh [month], even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, [even] to me?Nahum 2:2For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
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