Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Also, I will have no compassion on her children,
Because they are children of harlotry.

King James Version

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

Holman Bible

I will have no compassion on her children
because they are the children of promiscuity.

International Standard Version

Furthermore, I'll not show pity on her children, since they are children of prostitution.

A Conservative Version

Yea, I will have no mercy upon her sons, for they are sons of whoredom,

American Standard Version

Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;

Amplified


“Also, I will have no mercy on her children,
Because they are the children of prostitution.

Bible in Basic English

And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

Darby Translation

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.

Julia Smith Translation

And her sons I will not compassionate, for they are the sons of fornications

King James 2000

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of harlotry.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And I will not have pity on her children, because [they are] children of whoredom.

Modern King James verseion

And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of adulteries.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I shall have no pity also upon her children, for they be the children of fornication.

NET Bible

I will have no pity on her children, because they are children conceived in adultery.

New Heart English Bible

Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;

The Emphasized Bible

And, on her children, not have compassion, - because, the children of paramours, they are.

Webster

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of lewdness.

World English Bible

Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;

Youngs Literal Translation

And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms are they,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I will not have mercy
רחם 
Racham 
Usage: 47

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Hosea 2:4

References

Context Readings

Israel's Adultery Rebuked

3 lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land and slay her with thirst. 4 “Also, I will have no compassion on her children,
Because they are children of harlotry.
5 For their mother has played the harlot; she that conceived them has been shamed; for she said, I will go after my lovers that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:14

And I will break them one against another, even the fathers with the sons together, saith the LORD; I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy to not destroy them.

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I will also deal in fury: my eye shall not forgive, neither will I have mercy: and they shall cry in my ears with a loud voice; yet I will not hear them.

Hosea 1:2

The beginning of the word of the LORD with Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land shall give itself over to whoredom by departing from the LORD.

Hosea 1:6

And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will never again have mercy upon the house of Israel, but I will utterly forget them.

2 Kings 9:22

And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, Is there peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the fornications of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: women shall come and set them on fire: for this is not a people of understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour.

Isaiah 57:3

But come here, ye sons of the sorceress, generation of the adulterer and the whore.

Jeremiah 16:5

For thus hath the LORD said, Do not enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor comfort them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, said the LORD, even mercy and compassion.

Ezekiel 9:10

And as for me also, my eye shall not forgive, neither will I have mercy, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of the hosts, when wilt thou have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years?

John 8:41

Ye do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Romans 9:18

Therefore he has mercy on whom he will have mercy, and he hardens whom he will.

Romans 11:22

Behold, therefore, the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity, but toward thee, goodness if thou continue in his goodness; otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

James 2:13

For judgment without mercy shall be done unto the one that has shown no mercy; and mercy boasts against judgment.

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