Hosea 3:3

3:3 Then I told her, “You must live with me many days; you must not commit adultery or have sexual intercourse with another man, and I also will wait for you.”

Hosea 4:6

4:6 You have destroyed my people

by failing to acknowledge me!

Because you refuse to acknowledge me,

I will reject you as my priests.

Because you reject the law of your God,

I will reject your descendants.

Hosea 5:3

5:3 I know Ephraim all too well;

the evil of Israel is not hidden from me.

For you have engaged in prostitution, O Ephraim;

Israel has defiled itself.


tn Heb “and you will not be for”; NIV “be intimate with.”

tn Heb “they have destroyed” or “my people are destroyed” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).

tn Heb “Because you reject knowledge”; NLT “because they don’t know me.”

tn Heb “have forgotten”; NAB, NIV “have ignored.”

tn Heb “forget” (so KJV, NRSV); NLT “forget to bless.”

tn The phrase “all too well” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity and stylistic reasons.

tn The phrase “the evil of” does not appear in the Hebrew text here, but is implied by the metonymical (cause-effect) use of the term “Israel.” It is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity. Cf. NCV “what they have done is not hidden from me.”

tn Or “Israel has become corrupt”; NCV “has made itself unclean”; TEV “are unfit to worship me.”