Hosea 5:12
Good News Translation
I will bring destruction on Israel and ruin on the people of Judah.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim, and like rottenness to the house of Judah.

Contemporary English Version
Now I, the LORD, will fill Israel with maggots and make Judah rot.

New American Bible
I am like a moth for Ephraim, like rot for the house of Judah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda.

as a.

Job 13:28 Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.

Isaiah 50:9 Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.

Isaiah 51:8 For the worm shall eat them up as a garment: and the moth shall consume them as wool: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice from generation to generation.

as.

Proverbs 12:4 The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

rottenness.

Jonah 4:7 And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of Jonah, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was fatigued): and Jonah was exceeding glad of the ivy.

Mark 9:44-48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished. . . .

Context
God's Judgment on Israel and Judah
11Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness. 12And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda.13And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to take off the band from you.…
Cross References
Psalm 39:11
Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 51:8
For the worm shall eat them up as a garment: and the moth shall consume them as wool: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice from generation to generation.

Hosea 5:11
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