Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.

New American Standard Bible

And it will be, like people, like priest;
So I will punish them for their ways
And repay them for their deeds.

King James Version

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

Holman Bible

The same judgment will happen
to both people and priests.
I will punish them for their ways
and repay them for their deeds.

International Standard Version

So it will be: like people, like priest. I will punish them for their lifestyles, rewarding them according to their behavior.

A Conservative Version

And it shall be, like people, like priest. And I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.

American Standard Version

And it shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.

Amplified


And it shall be: like people, like priest [both are wicked and both will be judged];
So I will punish them for their ways
And repay them for their deeds.

Bible in Basic English

And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.

Darby Translation

And it shall be as the people so the priest; and I will visit their ways upon them, and recompense to them their doings;

Julia Smith Translation

And it was as the people so the priest: and I reviewed upon them their way; and their doings I will turn back to them.

King James 2000

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their deeds.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And it will be like people, like priest; I will punish them [for] their ways, and I will requite them for their deeds.

Modern King James verseion

And it has become, Like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their doings.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thus the priest is become like the people. Wherefore I will punish them for their wicked ways, and reward them according to their own imaginations.

NET Bible

I will deal with the people and priests together: I will punish them both for their ways, and I will repay them for their deeds.

New Heart English Bible

It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

The Emphasized Bible

So doth it come to be - like people, like priest, - therefore will I visit upon him his ways, and, his doings, will I bring back to him;

Webster

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

World English Bible

It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

כּהן 
Kohen 
Usage: 750

דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

and reward
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Hosea 4:9

References

Fausets

Hastings

Sin

Context Readings

The Lord Accuses The Priests

8 The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul. 9 And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it. 10 And they have eaten, and are not satisfied, They have gone a-whoring, and increase not, For they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.



Cross References

Isaiah 24:2

And it hath been -- as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting it on himself.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved it so, And what do they at its latter end?

Psalm 109:17-18

And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

Isaiah 3:10

Say ye to the righteous, that it is good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat.

Isaiah 9:14-16

And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed -- the same day,

Jeremiah 8:10-12

Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing falsely.

Jeremiah 23:11-12

For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Ezekiel 22:26-31

Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst.

Hosea 1:4

and Jehovah saith unto him, 'Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little, and I have charged the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and have caused to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel;

Hosea 8:13

The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They -- to Egypt they turn back.

Hosea 9:9

They have gone deep -- have done corruptly, As in the days of Gibeah, He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins.

Zechariah 1:6

Only, My words, and My statutes, That I commanded My servants the prophets, Have they not overtaken your fathers, And they turn back and say: As Jehovah of Hosts designed to do to us, According to our ways, and according to our doings, So He hath done to us?'

Matthew 15:14

let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

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