Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
My people will ask in their counsel, and with their rod they will announce to them: for the spirit of fornications caused to err, and they will commit fornication from under their God.
New American Standard Bible
For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
And they have played the harlot, departing
King James Version
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Holman Bible
and their divining rods inform them.
For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray;
they act promiscuously
in disobedience to
International Standard Version
My people seek counsel from their piece of wood, and their diviner's rod speaks to them. For a spirit of prostitution causes them to go astray; in their immorality they desert their God.
A Conservative Version
My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of whoredom has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God.
American Standard Version
My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, departing from under their God.
Amplified
My people consult their [lifeless] wooden idol, and their [diviner’s] wand gives them oracles.
For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray [morally and spiritually],
And they have played the prostitute, withdrawing themselves from their God.
Bible in Basic English
My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.
Darby Translation
My people ask counsel of their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms causeth them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God:
King James 2000
My people ask counsel of their idols of wood, and their staff advises unto them: for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot against their God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My people, consult {their wooden idols}, and their divining rod gives them oracles; because a spirit of whoredom led [them] astray, and they played the whore from under their God.
Modern King James verseion
My people seek advice from their wooden idols, and their rod declares to them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to go astray, and they have gone lusting away from under their God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My people ask counsel at their stocks, their staff must tell them. For a whorish mind hath deceived them, so that they commit fornication against their God.
NET Bible
They consult their wooden idols, and their diviner's staff answers with an oracle. The wind of prostitution blows them astray; they commit spiritual adultery against their God.
New Heart English Bible
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
The Emphasized Bible
My people, of their Wood, do ask, - Let, their Staff, then tell them, - for, the spirit of unchastity, hath led them astray, and they have unchastely departed from under their God.
Webster
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth to them: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they have gone astray from under their God.
World English Bible
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
Youngs Literal Translation
My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.
Themes
Adultery » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Characterized as an adulteress
Divination » Effected through » Rods
Heart » What takes away the heart
Idolatry » Objects of, described as » Stocks
Idolatry » They who practice » Have fellowship with devils
Idolatry » They who practice » Ask counsel of their idols
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Characterized as an adulteress
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Adultery of
Sins » National » The jews, characterized as an adulteress
Topics
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Ruwach
Ta`ah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 4:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Case Against The People
11 Fornication and wine and new wine will take away the heart. 12 My people will ask in their counsel, and with their rod they will announce to them: for the spirit of fornications caused to err, and they will commit fornication from under their God. 13 Upon the heads of the mountains they will sacrifice, and upon the hills they will burn incense, under the oak and the white poplar and the terebinth, because its shadow was good: for this your daughters will commit fornication, and your brides shall commit adultery.
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:27
Saying to the wood, Thou my father; and to the stone, Thou didst bring me forth: for they turned to me the back of the neck and not their face: and in the time of their evil they will say, Arise, and save us.
Hosea 5:4
They will not give their doings to turn back to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they knew not Jehovah.
Habakkuk 2:19
Wo! to him saying to the wood, Awake; and to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach. Being overlaid with gold and silver, and not any spirit in its midst.
Leviticus 17:7
And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to satyrs with whom they committed fornication after them: this shall be to them a law forever to their generations.
Leviticus 20:5
And I set my face against that man and against his family, and I cut him off, and all committing fornication after him to commit fornication after Molech, from the midst of their people.
Numbers 15:39
And it was to you for fringes, and ye saw it, and ye remembered all the commands of Jehovah, and ye did them; and ye shall not seek after your heart, and after your eyes, which ye committed fornication after them.
Deuteronomy 31:16
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Behold thee lying down with thy fathers, and this people rising up and committing fornication after the gods of the foreigner of the land where he going there in the midst of him, and he forsook me and brake my covenant which I made with him.
2 Chronicles 21:13
And thou wilt go in the way of the kings of Israel, and thou wilt cause Judah to commit fornication, and those inhabiting Jerusalem, according to the fornications of the house of Ahab, and also thou didst kill thy brethren of the house of thy father, being good above thee.
Psalm 73:27
For behold, they being far off from thee shall perish: thou didst lay waste all committing fornication from thee.
Isaiah 44:18-20
They will not know, and they will not discern: he spread over their eyes from seeing; their heart from considering.
Jeremiah 3:1-3
Saying, If a man shall send away his wife, and she went from him and she was to another man, shall he yet turn back to her? Being defiled, shall not that land be defiled? and thou committedst fornication with many shepherds; and turn back to me, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 10:8
And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.
Ezekiel 16:1-63
And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying,
Ezekiel 21:21
For the king of Babel stood at the mother of the way in the head of the two ways, to divine a divination; he shook with the arrows, he asked in the family gods, he looked in the liver.
Ezekiel 23:1-49
The word of Jehovah will come to me, saying,
Hosea 9:1
Thou shalt not rejoice, O Israel; exult not as the peoples: for thou didst commit fornication from thy God; thou didst love a gift upon all the threshing-floors of grain.
Micah 2:11
If a man going in the spirit and falsehood, lying, I will drop to thee for wine and for strong drink; and he was the dropping of this people.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
Whose arrival is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,