Discovery BoxHosea 4:5 
Context4:5 You stumble day and night,
and the false prophets stumble with you;
You have destroyed your own people! 1
Hosea 6:10
Context6:10 I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel:
there Ephraim practices temple prostitution
and Judah defiles itself.
Hosea 8:9
Context8:9 They have gone up to Assyria,
like a wild donkey that wanders off.
Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers. 2
Hosea 9:17
Context9:17 My God will reject them,
for they have not obeyed him;
so they will be fugitives among the nations.
1 tc The MT reads וְדָמִיתִי אִמֶּךָ (vÿdamiti ’immekha, “and I will destroy your mother”), and is followed by most English versions; however, the text should probably be emended to וְדָמִית עַמֶּךָ (vÿdamit ’ammekha, “and you have destroyed your own people”). The 2nd person masculine singular form וְדָמִית (vÿdamit, “and you have destroyed”) is preserved in several medieval Hebrew
tn Or “and I will destroy your mother” (so NASB, NRSV).
2 tn Or “has hired herself out to lovers”; cf. NIV “has sold herself to lovers.”
