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I will call out the armies of the nations to punish you for your multiplied sins.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/hosea/10.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />When I please, I will discipline them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are bound up for their double iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/10.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/10.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br /><i>It is</i> in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/10.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />When <i>it is</i> My desire, I will chasten them. Peoples shall be gathered against them When I bind them for their two transgressions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/10.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />When it is My desire, I will discipline them; And the peoples will be gathered against them When they are bound for their double guilt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/10.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />When it is My desire, I will chastise them; And the peoples will be gathered against them When they are bound for their double guilt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/10.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />When it is My desire, I will chastise them; And the peoples will be gathered against them When they are bound for their double guilt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/10.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />When it is My desire, I will chastise them; And the peoples will be gathered against them When they are bound for their double guilt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/10.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />When it is my desire [to defend My righteousness], I will chastise them; And [hostile] peoples will be gathered against them When they are bound <i>and</i> punished for their double guilt [their revolt against the LORD and their worship of idols].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/10.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I will discipline them at my discretion; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/10.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I will discipline them at My discretion; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their two crimes. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/10.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/10.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Your sins have doubled, and you are rebellious. Now I have decided to send nations to attack and put you in chains. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/10.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/10.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"I will punish them when I'm ready. Armies will gather to attack them. They will be punished for their many sins.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/10.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I will attack this sinful people and punish them. Nations will join together against them, and they will be punished for their many sins. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/10.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />When I'm ready, I will chasten them; and the people will gather against them, to imprison them for their two unrighteous acts." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/10.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/10.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />When I please, I will discipline them; I will gather nations together to attack them, to bind them in chains for their two sins. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/10.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />I am coming to discipline them; and the nations will be gathered against them, when they are disciplined for their two transgressions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/10.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations will be gathered against them when they are bound to their two transgressions. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/10.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />When I desire, then I bind them, "" And peoples have gathered against them, "" When they bind themselves to their two iniquities.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> When I desire, then I do bind them, And gathered against them have peoples, When they bind themselves to their two iniquities.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/10.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />In my coming and I shall correct them, and the peoples shall be gathered together against them in their being bound to their two sins.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />According to my desire I will chastise them: and the nations shall be gathered together against them, when they shall be chastised for their two iniquities. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/10.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />According to my desire, I will correct them. And the peoples will be gathered together over them, while they are chastised for their two iniquities.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/10.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I came and I chastised them; Peoples will be gathered against them when I bind them to their two crimes. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I will come against the wayward people to punish them; and nations shall be gathered against them when they are punished for their double iniquity.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/10.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />In my rebuke I will chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them when they shall be chastised for their two follies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/10.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />In my rebuke I shall chastise them and the nations will be assembled against them when they are chastised for their two offenses<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/10.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />When it is My desire, I will chastise them; And the peoples shall be gathered against them, When they are yoked to their two rings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/10.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />to chastise them shall not overtake them on the hill, the nations shall be gathered against them, when they are chastened for their two sins,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/10-10.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=1588" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/10.htm">Retribution for Israel's Sin</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">9</span>Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity? <span class="reftext">10</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3256.htm" title="3256: wə·’es·so·rêm (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjImperf-1cs:: 3mp) -- To discipline, chasten, admonish. A primitive root; to chastise, literally or figuratively; hence, to instruct.">I will chasten them</a> <a href="/hebrew/185.htm" title="185: bə·’aw·wā·ṯî (Prep-b:: N-fsc:: 1cs) -- Desire. From 'avah; longing.">when I please;</a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: ‘am·mîm (N-mp) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">nations</a> <a href="/hebrew/622.htm" title="622: wə·’us·sə·p̄ū (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConjPerf-3cp) -- To gather, remove. A primitive root; to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. Remove.">will be gathered</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ă·lê·hem (Prep:: 3mp) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">against them</a> <a href="/hebrew/631.htm" title="631: bə·’ā·sə·rām (Prep-b:: V-Qal-Inf:: 3mp) -- To tie, bind, imprison. A primitive root; to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle.">to put them in bondage</a> <a href="/hebrew/8147.htm" title="8147: liš·tê (Prep-l:: Number-fdc) -- Two (a card. number). Dual of sheniy; feminine shttayim; two; also twofold.">for their double</a> <a href="/hebrew/5869.htm" title="5869: ʿē·nō·ṯå̄m (N-cpc:: 3mp) -- An eye. Probably a primitive word; an eye; by analogy, a fountain.">transgression.</a> </span><span class="reftext">11</span>Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/18-23.htm">Jeremiah 18:23</a></span><br />But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm">Isaiah 10:5-6</a></span><br />Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. / I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/3-2.htm">Amos 3:2</a></span><br />“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-49.htm">Deuteronomy 28:49-50</a></span><br />The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand, / a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/7-20.htm">Isaiah 7:20</a></span><br />On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/5-15.htm">Jeremiah 5:15</a></span><br />Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-6.htm">2 Kings 17:6</a></span><br />In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/13-3.htm">Isaiah 13:3-5</a></span><br />I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph. / Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war. / They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/23-46.htm">Ezekiel 23:46-47</a></span><br />This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder. / The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/5-15.htm">Micah 5:15</a></span><br />I will take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed Me.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/24-30.htm">Matthew 24:30-31</a></span><br />At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. / And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/21-22.htm">Luke 21:22-24</a></span><br />For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. / How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people. / They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/2-5.htm">Romans 2:5-6</a></span><br />But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. / God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/19-15.htm">Revelation 19:15</a></span><br />And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_thessalonians/1-7.htm">2 Thessalonians 1:7-9</a></span><br />and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels / in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. / They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.</p><p class="hdg">in my.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/28-63.htm">Deuteronomy 28:63</a></b></br> And it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/1-24.htm">Isaiah 1:24</a></b></br> Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/15-6.htm">Jeremiah 15:6</a></b></br> Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.</p><p class="hdg">and the.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/8-1.htm">Hosea 8:1,10</a></b></br> <i>Set</i> the trumpet to thy mouth. <i>He shall come</i> as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/16-16.htm">Jeremiah 16:16</a></b></br> Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/21-4.htm">Jeremiah 21:4</a></b></br> Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that <i>are</i> in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and <i>against</i> the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.</p><p class="hdg">they, etc.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/1-11.htm">Assembled</a> <a href="/hosea/6-1.htm">Bind</a> <a href="/jeremiah/30-8.htm">Bonds</a> <a href="/hosea/7-15.htm">Bound</a> <a href="/hosea/7-12.htm">Chastise</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-18.htm">Chastised</a> <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/ezekiel/41-23.htm">Double</a> <a href="/hosea/10-4.htm">Furrows</a> <a href="/hosea/1-11.htm">Gathered</a> <a href="/hosea/10-2.htm">Guilt</a> <a href="/daniel/9-16.htm">Iniquities</a> <a href="/hosea/10-9.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/hosea/9-17.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/hosea/7-8.htm">Peoples</a> <a href="/daniel/9-16.htm">Please</a> <a href="/hosea/8-13.htm">Pleasure</a> <a href="/hosea/9-9.htm">Punish</a> <a href="/hosea/10-4.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/hosea/9-7.htm">Reward</a> <a href="/hosea/2-13.htm">Rings</a> <a href="/hosea/9-9.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/hosea/9-6.htm">Together</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-24.htm">Transgressions</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-24.htm">Wayward</a> <a href="/psalms/106-28.htm">Yoked</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/micah/4-11.htm">Assembled</a> <a href="/micah/1-13.htm">Bind</a> <a href="/hosea/11-4.htm">Bonds</a> <a href="/hosea/13-12.htm">Bound</a> <a href="/luke/23-16.htm">Chastise</a> <a href="/luke/23-16.htm">Chastised</a> <a href="/joel/1-20.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/zechariah/9-12.htm">Double</a> <a href="/hosea/12-11.htm">Furrows</a> <a href="/joel/2-6.htm">Gathered</a> <a href="/hosea/12-8.htm">Guilt</a> <a href="/amos/3-2.htm">Iniquities</a> <a href="/hosea/10-13.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/joel/2-6.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/hosea/10-14.htm">Peoples</a> <a href="/amos/7-2.htm">Please</a> <a href="/hosea/10-11.htm">Pleasure</a> <a href="/hosea/12-2.htm">Punish</a> <a href="/hosea/12-2.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/hosea/12-2.htm">Reward</a> <a href="/james/2-2.htm">Rings</a> <a href="/hosea/13-12.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/hosea/13-2.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/hosea/11-7.htm">Together</a> <a href="/amos/1-3.htm">Transgressions</a> <a href="/hosea/11-12.htm">Wayward</a> <a href="/micah/1-13.htm">Yoked</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 10</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/10-1.htm">Israel is reproved and threatened for their impiety and idolatry, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/10-12.htm">and exhorted to repentance.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The concept of divine chastening is consistent throughout Scripture, where God disciplines those He loves (<a href="/hebrews/12-6.htm">Hebrews 12:6</a>). The timing is at God's discretion, emphasizing His control over history and events. This reflects the covenant relationship between God and Israel, where disobedience leads to correction (<a href="/deuteronomy/28-15.htm">Deuteronomy 28:15-68</a>).<p><b>nations will be gathered against them</b><br>This part of the verse suggests a collective judgment involving multiple nations. Historically, Israel faced invasions and captivities by foreign powers such as Assyria and Babylon. This gathering of nations can be seen as a fulfillment of warnings given by prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah, who spoke of foreign nations as instruments of God's judgment (<a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm">Isaiah 10:5-6</a>). It also foreshadows eschatological themes where nations gather against God's people, as seen in prophetic books like Daniel and Revelation.<p><b>to put them in bondage</b><br>The bondage refers to the physical captivity and oppression experienced by Israel due to their disobedience. This is historically realized in the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles. Bondage is a recurring theme in the Bible, symbolizing the consequences of sin and rebellion against God. It also serves as a type pointing to spiritual bondage from which Christ redeems believers (<a href="/john/8-34.htm">John 8:34-36</a>).<p><b>for their double transgression.</b><br>The "double transgression" likely refers to Israel's idolatry and social injustice, two major sins frequently condemned by the prophets. Hosea, in particular, highlights Israel's unfaithfulness to God through idolatry and their failure to uphold justice and righteousness (<a href="/hosea/4.htm">Hosea 4:1-2</a>). This dual sinfulness underscores the depth of their rebellion and the justification for divine chastening. The concept of "double" may also imply the severity and repeated nature of their offenses, echoing the warnings found in the law and the prophets.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/h/hosea.htm">Hosea</a></b><br>A prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Hosea's ministry focused on calling Israel to repentance and warning of impending judgment due to their unfaithfulness to God.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The Northern Kingdom, often referred to as Ephraim in Hosea, which had fallen into idolatry and moral decay, prompting God's judgment.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/n/nations.htm">Nations</a></b><br>Refers to the foreign powers that God would use as instruments of judgment against Israel, such as Assyria.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/d/double_iniquity.htm">Double Iniquity</a></b><br>This term highlights the compounded sins of Israel, including idolatry and social injustice, which warranted divine discipline.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/d/discipline.htm">Discipline</a></b><br>God's corrective action intended to bring Israel back to righteousness and covenant faithfulness.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_discipline.htm">God's Sovereignty in Discipline</a></b><br>God exercises His authority to discipline His people at His discretion, emphasizing His control over nations and events.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_sin.htm">The Consequences of Sin</a></b><br>Israel's "double iniquity" serves as a warning about the seriousness of sin and its inevitable consequences.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_purpose_of_divine_discipline.htm">The Purpose of Divine Discipline</a></b><br>God's discipline is not merely punitive but redemptive, aiming to restore His people to a right relationship with Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_nations_in_god's_plan.htm">The Role of Nations in God's Plan</a></b><br>God can use even foreign nations to accomplish His purposes, demonstrating His power over all creation.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a></b><br>The passage serves as a call to examine our own lives for areas of unfaithfulness and to seek repentance and restoration.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_10.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 10</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_genesis_10_omit_some_nations.htm">Why does the table of nations in Genesis 10 leave out certain civilizations known from archeological records, such as those in the Americas or Asia?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_hosea_10_15_align_with_god's_mercy.htm">Hosea 10:15: How does the severe punishment described reconcile with portrayals of a merciful God elsewhere in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_is_israel_condemned_for_alliances.htm">Hosea 8:10: If alliances were necessary for survival in the ancient Near East, why is Israel condemned for making them?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_there_proof_of_beth-aven's_calf_idol.htm">Hosea 10:5: Do we have any archaeological proof of the calf idol in Beth-Aven, or is there a lack of external evidence supporting its existence?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/10.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(10) Translate (see Margin; so Jerome), <span class= "ital">When I desire, I will chastise them, and peoples shall be gathered against them, when I chastise them for their two iniquities</span> (<span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> the two calves which had been the source of heresy and treason against Jehovah).<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 10.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them.</span> This is better translated thus: <span class="accented">When I desire it, then</span> (<span class="accented">vav</span> of the apodosis) shall <span class="accented">I chastise them</span>; <span class="accented">and the peoples shall be gathered against them</span>. This expresses God's determination to punish sin and vindicate his justice as the infinitely Holy One. It means, not only that his desire to punish them does exist, but that, this desire being taken for granted, there shall be no let nor hindrance; nothing can stay his hand. Then the mode and means of chastisement are indicated - peoples, foreign invaders, shall be gathered against them. The verb <span class="hebrew">אָסֹר</span> is future Qal of <span class="hebrew">יסר</span> irregularly, as if coming from <span class="hebrew">נסד</span>, the daghesh in <span class="accented">samech</span> compensating for the absorbed <span class="accented">yod</span>. <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>When they shall bind themselves in their two furrows</span>; margin, <span class="accented">When I shall bind them for their two transgressions</span>, or, <span class="accented">in their two habitations</span>. <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> Gesenius, Ewald, and others, abiding by the Kethir or textual reading of the original, translate, "Jehovah will chastise them before with their eyes," that is, not in secret, but openly before the world. They thus refer the word to <span class="hebrew">עַיִן</span>, eye, but <span class="hebrew">עְינָות</span> is "fountains," not "eyes." <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> The Hebrew commentators, Aben Ezra and Kimchi, explain the word in the sense of "two furrows" as in Authorized Version; and refer them to Judah and Ephraim. Thus Kimchi says, "The prophet compares Judah and Ephraim to two plowing oxen. I thought they would plough well, but they have ploughed ill, since they have bound themselves together one with the other and have allied themselves the one with the other to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah." Similarly Rosenmüller: "To be bound to two furrows is said of oxen plowing when they are bound together in a common yoke, so that in two adjacent furrows they walk together and with equal pace." <p><span class="note_emph">(3)</span> The Septuagint rendering, based on the Qeri and followed by the Syriac and Arabic, gives a better and clearer sense than the preceding. It is, <span class="greek">Ἐν</span> <span class="greek">ταῖς δυσὶν ἀδικίαις αὐτῶν</span>, and is followed by Jerome in <span class="accented">Super duas iniquitates suas</span>, as also by the most judicious expositors of ancient and modern times. Yet there is great variety as to what those iniquities are. Some, like Jerome, refer to the double idolatry - that of Micah and that of Jeroboam; others, like Dathe, to the two golden calves set up at Dan and Bethel; Cyril and Theodoret to the apostasy of Israel from Jehovah, and devotion to idols; De Wette and Keil to the double unfaithfulness of Israel to Jehovah and the royal house of David. The exact rendering would, according to any of these views, be, "When I bind them to their two transgressions," or, "When I allow the foreigners to bind them on account of their two transgressions;" that is to connect or yoke them to their two transgressions by the punishment, so that they, like beasts of burden, must drag them after them, whatever be the view we take of the nature of those transgressions. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/10-10.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">I will chasten them</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאֶסֳּרֵ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’es·so·rêm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3256.htm">Strong's 3256: </a> </span><span class="str2">To discipline, chasten, admonish</span><br /><br /><span class="word">when I please;</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּאַוָּתִ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(bə·’aw·wā·ṯî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_185.htm">Strong's 185: </a> </span><span class="str2">Longing</span><br /><br /><span class="word">nations</span><br /><span class="heb">עַמִּ֔ים</span> <span class="translit">(‘am·mîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> </span><span class="str2">A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will be gathered</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאֻסְּפ֤וּ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’us·sə·p̄ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_622.htm">Strong's 622: </a> </span><span class="str2">To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove</span><br /><br /><span class="word">against them</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲלֵיהֶם֙</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·lê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to put them in bondage</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּאָסְרָ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(bə·’ā·sə·rām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_631.htm">Strong's 631: </a> </span><span class="str2">To yoke, hitch, to fasten, to join battle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for their double</span><br /><span class="heb">לִשְׁתֵּ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(liš·tê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Number - fdc<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8147.htm">Strong's 8147: </a> </span><span class="str2">Two (a cardinal number)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">transgression.</span><br /><span class="heb">עוֹנֹתָֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(‘ō·w·nō·ṯām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5868.htm">Strong's 5868: </a> </span><span class="str2">Meaning strength</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/10-10.htm">Hosea 10:10 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/10-10.htm">Hosea 10:10 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/10-10.htm">Hosea 10:10 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/10-10.htm">Hosea 10:10 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/10-10.htm">Hosea 10:10 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/10-10.htm">Hosea 10:10 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/10-10.htm">Hosea 10:10 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/10-10.htm">Hosea 10:10 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/10-10.htm">Hosea 10:10 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/10-10.htm">Hosea 10:10 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/10-10.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 10:10 When it is my desire I will (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/10-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 10:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 10:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/10-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 10:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 10:11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>