Hosea 10:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Israel is an empty vine, he brings forth fruit for himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made beautiful images.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more abundant his fruit, the more altars he built. The richer his land, the more he adorned sacred pillars.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Israel{H3478} is a luxuriant{H1238} vine,{H1612} that putteth forth{H7737} his fruit:{H6529} according to the abundance{H7230} of his fruit{H6529} he hath multiplied{H7235} his altars;{H4196} according to the goodness{H2896} of their land{H776} they have made goodly{H2895} [ pillars.]{H4676}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Israel{H3478} is an empty{H1238}{(H8802)} vine{H1612}, he bringeth forth{H7737}{(H8762)} fruit{H6529} unto himself: according to the multitude{H7230} of his fruit{H6529} he hath increased{H7235}{(H8689)} the altars{H4196}; according to the goodness{H2896} of his land{H776} they have made goodly{H2895}{(H8689)} images{H4676}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Israel was a goodly vyne, but he hath brought forth vnprofitable frute: yee the more frute he had, the mo aulters he made: ye more good I dyd to their londe, the more frendshipe shewed they to their ymages.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Israel is a emptie vine, yet hath it brought foorth fruite vnto it selfe, and according to the multitude of the fruite thereof he hath increased the altars: according to the goodnesse of their lande they haue made faire images.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Israel is an emptie vine, yet hath it brought foorth fruite to it selfe, accordyng to the multitude of the fruite therof he hath encreased alwayes: accordyng to the goodnesse of their lande they haue made them faire images.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ Israel [is] an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `An empty vine `is' Israel, Fruit he maketh like to himself, According to the abundance of his fruit, He hath multiplied for the altars, According to the goodness of his land, They have made goodly standing-pillars.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly pillars.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly [ pillars.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Israel is Guilty of Fertility Cult Worship Israel was a fertile vine that yielded fruit. As his fruit multiplied, he multiplied altars to Baal. As his land prospered, they adorned the fertility pillars.

Referenced Verses

  • Hos 8:11 : 11 Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him for sin.
  • Isa 5:1-7 : 1 Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill: 2 And he fenced it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected it to bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. 4 What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes? 5 And now, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down: 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.
  • Hos 12:11 : 11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
  • Jer 2:28 : 28 But where are your gods that you have made? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.
  • Ezek 15:1-5 : 1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch among the trees of the forest? 3 Shall wood be taken from it to do any work? Or will one take a peg from it to hang any vessel upon? 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire consumes both ends of it, and the middle of it is burned. Is it fit for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was not fit for any work: how much less shall it be fit for any work when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned?
  • Lev 26:1 : 1 You shall make no idols nor carved image, neither set up a standing image, nor shall you set up any image of stone in your land to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23 : 23 For they also built for themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
  • Hos 12:8 : 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.
  • Hos 2:8 : 8 For she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
  • Hos 8:4 : 4 They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I did not acknowledge it. From their silver and their gold, they have made idols for themselves, that they may be cut off.
  • Hos 13:2 : 2 And now they sin more and more, and have made molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
  • Hos 13:6 : 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me.
  • Nah 2:2 : 2 For the LORD has turned away the grandeur of Jacob, as the grandeur of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and ruined their vine branches.
  • Zech 7:5-6 : 5 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years, did you at all fast to Me, even to Me? 6 And when you ate and when you drank, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
  • John 15:1-6 : 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may produce more fruit. 3 Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit, for without me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
  • Rom 14:7-8 : 7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 Therefore from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are of Jesus Christ.

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    2 Their heart is divided; now they shall be found guilty: he shall break down their altars, he shall ruin their images.

  • Isa 17:8-10
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    8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves or the images.

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  • Nah 2:2
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    2 For the LORD has turned away the grandeur of Jacob, as the grandeur of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and ruined their vine branches.

  • Hos 8:14
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    14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces there.

  • Isa 5:7
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    7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

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    3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, says the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10
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    10 They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

  • Hos 8:6-8
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    6 For it is from Israel; the workman made it, and it is not God. But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

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    8 Israel is swallowed up; now they shall be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which is no pleasure.

  • Hos 9:10
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    10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they went to Baal Peor, and separated themselves to that shame, and their abominations were according to their loves.

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    3 Israel has cast off what is good; the enemy shall pursue him.

  • 1 Kgs 14:15
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    15 For the LORD shall strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall uproot Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

  • Isa 5:2
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    2 And he fenced it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected it to bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.

  • Isa 27:9-11
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    9 By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten apart, the groves and images shall not stand up.

    10 Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.

    11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.

  • Hos 7:10
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    10 And the pride of Israel bears witness to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

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    11 Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him for sin.

  • Jer 11:16-17
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    16 The LORD called your name, A green olive tree, lovely and of good fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and its branches are broken.

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    7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree: he has made it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.

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    5 And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

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    8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, what their own fingers have made.

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    8 It was planted in good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches and bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

  • Jer 2:21
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    21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?

  • Isa 10:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

    18 And shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.

  • Ps 80:8
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    8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt; you have cast out the nations, and planted it.

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    14 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he plundered?

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    7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

  • Jer 12:10
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    10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trampled My portion underfoot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

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    6 And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine and brought forth branches and shot forth sprigs.

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    9 O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in me is your help.

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    15 And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.

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    6 Those who come from Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

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    10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose carved images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria;

  • Lev 26:20
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    20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

  • Joel 1:10
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    10 The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the grain is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.

  • Hos 12:11
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    11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

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    5 That I may seize the house of Israel in their own hearts because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

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    8 The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: thorns and thistles shall grow on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, 'Cover us,' and to the hills, 'Fall on us.'

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    13 Yet the land shall be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

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    2 As they were called, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baal, and burned incense to carved images.

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    8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do anymore with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green cypress tree. From me your fruit is found.

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    9 Thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine; turn back your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.

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    13 You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you trusted in your own way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

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    5 For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.