Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding.

King James Version

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Holman Bible

Promiscuity, wine, and new wine
take away one’s understanding.

International Standard Version

"Sexual immorality, wine, and fresh wine seduce the heart of my people.

A Conservative Version

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.

American Standard Version

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.

Amplified


Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away the mind and the [spiritual] understanding.

Bible in Basic English

Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

Darby Translation

Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.

Julia Smith Translation

Fornication and wine and new wine will take away the heart.

King James 2000

Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Lexham Expanded Bible

whoredom}. Wine and new wine {take away the understanding}.

Modern King James verseion

Fornication and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Whoredom, wine and drunkenness take the heart away.

NET Bible

Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.

New Heart English Bible

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

The Emphasized Bible

Unchastity, and wine, and new wine, take away the heart.

Webster

Lewdness and wine and new wine take away the heart.

World English Bible

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

Youngs Literal Translation

Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
זנוּת 
Z@nuwth 
Usage: 9

and wine
יין 
Yayin 
Usage: 140

and new wine
תּירשׁ תּירושׁ 
Tiyrowsh 
Usage: 38

לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Hosea 4:11

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Context Readings

Yahweh Has An Indictment

10 They will eat, and not have enough! They will play the harlot, and will not increase! They do not listen to Jehovah. 11 Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding.
12 My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them; for the spirit of adultery caused them to go astray. They have played the harlot, departing from their God.

Cross References

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker! Strong drink leads to brawls. He who is intoxicated by it is not wise.

Isaiah 28:7

These also stagger from wine and reel from beer. Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine. They reel from beer. They stagger when seeing visions. They stumble when rendering decisions.

Luke 21:34

Be awake so your hearts are not weighed down. Do not allow the weight of worldly involvement, drunkenness, and cares of this life be a snare when that day suddenly comes.

Isaiah 5:12

At their feasts there are lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine. Yet, they do not pay attention to what Jehovah is doing or respect what his hands have done.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery with a woman lacks judgment and destroys himself.

Proverbs 23:27-35

A prostitute is a deep pit. An adulterous wife is a well of tribulation.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Oppression makes a wise man foolish (emotionally unstable) (mentally ill) and a bribe destroys the heart.

Hosea 4:12

My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them; for the spirit of adultery caused them to go astray. They have played the harlot, departing from their God.

Romans 13:11-14

You know the time. It is the hour for you to awake from sleep. Now our salvation is nearer than when we became believers.

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