Skip to main content

Hosea 6:5

Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

KJV

Propter hoc dolavi in prophetis ; occidi eos in verbis oris mei : et judicia tua quasi lux egredientur.

Vulgate

διὰ τοῦτο ἀπεθέρισα τοὺς προφήτας ὑμῶν, ἀπέκτεινα αὐτοὺς ἐν ῥήματι στόματός μου, καὶ τὸ κρίμα μου ὡς φῶς ἐξελεύσεται.

LXX

Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

ASV

עַל כֵּ֗ן חָצַ֨בְתִּי֙ בַּ/נְּבִיאִ֔ים הֲרַגְתִּ֖י/ם בְּ/אִמְרֵי פִ֑/י וּ/מִשְׁפָּטֶ֖י/ךָ א֥וֹר יֵצֵֽא

Hebrew

Open in reader with connections →

In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

א֣וֹר
'vr
noun · 120×
אִמְרֵי
'mry
noun · 48×
חֹצֵ֣ב
chtsb
verb · 24×
י
y
noun · 422×
י
y
noun · 496×
כֵ֗ן
kn
adjective · 767×
ם
m
verb · 167×
ם
m
verb · 1071×
נָּבִ֖יא
nby'
noun · 316×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2787When we say "our" Father, we recognize first that all his promises of love announced by the prophets are fulfilled in the new and eternal covenant in his Christ: we have become "his" people and he is henceforth "our" God. This new relationship is the purely gratuitous gift of belonging to each other: we are to respond to "grace and truth" given us in Jesus Christ with love and …

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 19:17 — And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
  • 2Sam 23:4 — And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
  • 2Thess 2:8 — And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
  • Eph 6:17 — And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
  • Ezek 23:45 — And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
  • Ezek 32:18 — Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
  • Heb 4:12 — For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoug
  • Isa 11:4 — But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay
  • Isa 49:2 — And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
  • Jer 1:10 — See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
  • Jer 5:14 — Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
  • Jer 5:14 — Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
  • Jer 23:29 — Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
  • Neh 9:29 — And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, h
  • Ps 119:120 — My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
  • Rev 2:16 — Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
  • Rev 11:5 — And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
  • Rom 2:5 — But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;