Hosea 10:13

Sin Faith

¹¹ 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.

¹² Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

¹⁴ the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.

¹⁵ Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,
KJV: Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
WEB: You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
ASV: Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
DARBY: Ye have ploughed wickedness, reaped iniquity, eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst confide in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
BLB: You⁺ have plowed wickedness; you⁺ have reaped injustice; you⁺ have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you trusted in your own way, in the multitude of your mighty men,

ÅB: Dere har pløyd ugudelighet, dere har høstet urett, dere har ett løgnens frukt; for du har satt din lit til din ferd og til dine mange helter.
OTB: Dere har pløyd ondskap, dere har høstet urett,
Dere har spist løgnens frukt.
Fordi dere har stolt på deres vei, på deres mange krigere,
B1930: I har pløid ugudelighet, I har høstet urett, I har ett løgnens frukt; for du har satt din lit til din ferd og til dine mange helter.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Job 4:8
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
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Galatians 6:7–8
Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
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Proverbs 22:8
He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
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Proverbs 1:31
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
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Proverbs 18:20–21
From the fruit of his mouth a man’s belly is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied.
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Psalms 62:10
Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
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Ecclesiastes 9:11
I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
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