Hosea 6:4
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Transitory Faithfulness and Imminent Judgment
6:4What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim?
What am I going to do with you, O Judah?
For8 your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist;9
it disappears as quickly as dawn’s dew!10
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- 8 The vav prefixed to וְחַסְדְּכֶם (vékhasdékhem, “your faithfulness”) functions in an explanatory sense (“For”).
- 9 Heb “your faithfulness [so ; “your loyalty”; , , “your love”] is like a morning cloud” (וְחַסְדְּכֶם כַּעֲנַן־בֹּקֶר, vékhasdékhem ka’anan-boqer). The Hebrew poets and prophets frequently refer to the morning clouds as a simile for transitoriness (e.g., Job 7:9; Isa 44:22; Hos 6:4; 13:3; 778 עָנָן 1.c). For discussion of this phenomena in Palestine, see Chaplin, (1883): 19.
- 10 Heb “the dew departing early” ( 1014 שָׁכַם); cf. “the dew that goes away early.” The Hiphil participle מַשְׁכִּים (mashkim) means “to depart early” (Gen 19:27; Josh 8:14; Judg 19:9). The idiom means “early morning” (1 Sam 17:16).
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
like the dew that goes early away.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
“What can I do with you, Ephraim?
What can I do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist,
like the early dew that disappears.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?
What am I going to do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist
and like the early dew that vanishes.
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NLTNew Living Translation
“O Israel and Judah,
what should I do with you?” asks the Lord.
“For your love vanishes like the morning mist
and disappears like dew in the sunlight.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
What will I do with you, O Ephraim?
What will I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
like the dew that goes away early in the morning.
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
KJV 1900King James Version
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?
O Judah, what shall I do unto thee?
For your goodness is as a morning cloud,
And as the early dew it goeth away.
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