Are profound to make slaughter. — Ewald, followed recently by Nowack, is right in interpreting the Heb. text as meaning, “The apostates have gone deep in iniquity.” In the last clause the Authorised version is again incorrect. Render, But I (i.e., Jehovah) am chastisement to them all. The deceivers and deceived shall alike perish.
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Hosea 5:2
2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.