Hosea 5:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הָיוּ֙ שָׂרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה כְּמַסִּיגֵ֖י גְּב֑וּל עֲלֵיהֶ֕ם אֶשְׁפּ֥וֹךְ כַּמַּ֖יִם עֶבְרָתִֽי׃

Transliteration

Hāyû śārê Yəhûḏâ like-massîḡê gəḇûl; upon-them ʾešpôḵ like-the-mayim ʿeḇrāṯî.

Grammar Details

*Hāyû*: perfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they have been/became
*śārê*: noun, masculine plural construct - princes/rulers of
*Yəhûḏâ*: proper noun - Judah
*massîḡê*: participle, hiphil, masculine plural construct - those who remove
*gəḇûl*: noun, masculine singular - boundary/border
*ʾešpôḵ*: imperfect, 1st person singular - I will pour out
*mayim*: noun, masculine plural - waters
*ʿeḇrāṯî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my wrath

Word Meanings

*Hāyû*: they have been/they became
*śārê*: princes/rulers/officials/leaders of
*massîḡê*: those who remove/those who displace/those who move
*gəḇûl*: boundary/border/territory/landmark
*ʾešpôḵ*: I will pour out/I will empty
*ʿeḇrāṯî*: my wrath/my fury/my overflow of anger

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Referenced Verses

Deut 19:14 : 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Deut 27:17 : 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves. 4 Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Jehovah on high is mighty.
Ps 32:6 : 6 For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him.
Ps 88:17 : 17 They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.
Prov 17:14 : 14 The beginning of strife is [as] when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.
Prov 22:28 : 28 Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.
Ezek 7:8 : 8 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath upon thee, and accomplish mine anger against thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine abominations.
Matt 7:27 : 27 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.
Luke 6:49 : 49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth without a foundation; against which the stream brake, and straightway it fell in; and the ruin of that house was great.
2 Kgs 16:7-9 : 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me. 8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. 9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
2 Chr 28:16-22 : 16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. 17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives. 18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with the towns thereof, and Timnah with the towns thereof, Gimzo also and the towns thereof: and they dwelt there. 19 For Jehovah brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he had dealt wantonly in Judah, and trespassed sore against Jehovah. 20 And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. 21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Jehovah, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but it helped him not. 22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Jehovah, this same king Ahaz.

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