Hosea 5:11

11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed [in] judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.

Hosea 5:11 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim [is] oppressed, [and] broken in judgment
Here the prophet again returns to the ten tribes, who were oppressed and broken, either by their own judgments, as the Targum; by the tyranny of their kings, and the injustice of their judges, who looked only for the mammon of unrighteousness; or by the judgment of their enemies, the Assyrians, the taxes they laid upon them, the devastations they made among them, and by whom, at last, they were carried captive; or by the judgments of God upon them; for all the enemy did was by his permission, and according to his will: because he willingly walked after the commandment;
not after the commandment of God, but after the commandment of men, as Aben Ezra; or after the commandment of the prophets of Baal, as Jarchi; or after the commandment of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, as Kimchi, by worshipping the calves at Dan and Bethel he set up there.

Hosea 5:11 In-Context

9 Ephraim will be a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I will reveal what is true.

10 The princes of Judah have become like those who remove a landmark; on them I will pour out my wrath like water.

11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed [in] judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.

12 But I [am] like a maggot to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.

13 And [when] Ephraim saw his illness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, he sent to the great king. But he was unable to cure you and heal your wound.

Footnotes

• [a] Hebrew uncertain; another possible translation is "that he follows human commands"