Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Also, I will have no mercy on her children,
Because they are the children of prostitution.
New American Standard Bible
Because they are
King James Version
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
Holman Bible
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;
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
Racham
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Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 2:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Adultery Rebuked
3
Or I will strip her naked
And expose her as on the day she was born,
And make her like a wilderness
And make her like a parched land
And slay her with thirst.
“Also, I will have no mercy on her children,
Because they are the children of prostitution.
“For their mother has played the prostitute;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully,
For she said, ‘I will pursue my lovers
Who give me my food and my water,
My wool and my flax, my oil and my [refreshing] drinks.’
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 13:14
I will smash them one against another, both the fathers and the sons together,” says the Lord. “I shall destroy them [nothing will restrain Me]; I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion.”’”
Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare [them]; and though they cry loudly in My ears, yet I will not listen to them.”
Hosea 1:2
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, take for yourself a
Hosea 1:6
Then Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-Ruhamah (not shown mercy), for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.
2 Kings 9:22
When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace [can exist] as long as the fornications of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many?”
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dry, they are broken off;
The women come and
For they are not a people of understanding,
Therefore He who made them will not have compassion on them,
And He who created them will not be gracious to them.
Isaiah 57:3
“But come here, you sons of a sorceress [raised in deception and superstition],
Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.
Jeremiah 16:5
For thus says the Lord, “Do not enter a house of mourning, nor go to lament (express grief) or bemoan [the dead], for I have taken My peace away from this people,” says the Lord, “even My lovingkindness and compassion.
Ezekiel 9:10
But as for Me, My eye will have no pity, nor will I spare, but I will bring their [wicked] conduct upon their [own] heads.”
Zechariah 1:12
Then the Angel of the Lord said, “O Lord of hosts, how long will You withhold mercy and compassion from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which You have had indignation and anger these seventy years [of the Babylonian captivity]?”
John 8:41
Romans 9:18
So then, He has mercy on whom He wills (chooses), and He hardens [the heart of] whom He wills.
Romans 11:22
Then appreciate the gracious kindness and the severity of God: to those who fell [into spiritual ruin], severity, but to you, God’s gracious kindness—if you continue in His kindness [by faith and obedience to Him]; otherwise you too will be cut off.
James 2:13
For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; but [to the one who has shown mercy] mercy triumphs [victoriously] over judgment.