Hosea 12:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

The LORD also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds will He recompense him.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long. They multiply lies and violence, making a covenant with Assyria and sending oil to Egypt.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Jehovah{H3068} hath also a controversy{H7379} with Judah,{H3063} and will punish{H6485} Jacob{H3290} according to his ways;{H1870} according to his doings{H4611} will he recompense{H7725} him.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    The LORD{H3068} hath also a controversy{H7379} with Judah{H3063}, and will punish{H6485}{(H8800)} Jacob{H3290} according to his ways{H1870}; according to his doings{H4611} will he recompense{H7725}{(H8686)} him.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The LORDE hath a courte to holde with Iuda, and wil punysh Iacob: After their owne waies and acordinge to their owne inuencions, shal he recompence them.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    The Lorde hath also a controuersie with Iudah, and will visite Iaakob, according to his waies: according to his workes, wil he recompence him.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    The Lorde hath a controuersie with Iuda, and wyll visite Iacob accordyng to his wayes, accordyng to their owne inuentions wyll he recompence them.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, And will punish Jacob according to his ways; According to his deeds he will repay him.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And a controversy hath Jehovah with Judah, To lay a charge on Jacob according to his ways, According to his doings He returneth to him.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Jehovah hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Jehovah hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The LORD also has a covenant lawsuit against Judah; he will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

Referenced Verses

  • Hos 4:1 : 1 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
  • Mic 6:2 : 2 Hear, O mountains, the LORD'S dispute, and you strong foundations of the earth, for the LORD has a dispute with His people, and He will plead with Israel.
  • Matt 16:27 : 27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.
  • Rom 2:6 : 6 Who will render to each person according to his deeds:
  • Gal 6:7 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.
  • Hos 4:9 : 9 And it shall be like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their deeds.
  • Hos 8:13 : 13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and visit their sins. They shall return to Egypt.
  • Hos 9:9 : 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
  • 2 Kgs 17:19-20 : 19 Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made. 20 So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
  • Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given to him.
  • Isa 8:7-8 : 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
  • Isa 10:6 : 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
  • Isa 10:12 : 12 Therefore, it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
  • Isa 24:21 : 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones who are on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
  • Isa 59:18 : 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the coastlands he will repay recompense.
  • Jer 3:8-9 : 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. 9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 10 And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to me with her whole heart, but in pretension, says the LORD. 11 And the LORD said to me, Backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
  • Jer 25:31 : 31 A noise shall come to the ends of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with the nations, He will plead with all flesh; He will give those who are wicked to the sword, says the LORD.
  • Ezek 23:11-21 : 11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotries more than her sister in her harlotries. 12 She lusted upon the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they both followed the same way, 14 And that she increased her harlotries: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15 Girded with sashes upon their loins, excellently attired upon their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: 16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. 18 So she uncovered her harlotries, and uncovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, just as my mind was alienated from her sister. 19 Yet she multiplied her harlotries, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, when she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 For she lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21 Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your breasts by the Egyptians for the pleasures of your youth.
  • Ezek 23:31-32 : 31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand. 32 Thus says the Lord GOD; You shall drink of your sister's cup, deep and large: you shall be laughed to scorn and held in derision; it contains much.
  • Hos 2:13 : 13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.

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