Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
I will not review over your daughters when they shall commit fornication, and over your brides when they shall commit adultery: fur they will separate themselves with harlots, and with prostitutes will they sacrifice: and the people will not understand, they shall be thrown down.
New American Standard Bible
Or your
For the men themselves go apart with harlots
And offer sacrifices with
So the people without understanding are
King James Version
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
Holman Bible
when they act promiscuously
or your daughters-in-law
when they commit adultery,
for the men themselves go off with prostitutes
and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes.
People without discernment are doomed.
International Standard Version
However, I'm not going to punish your daughters when they commit prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because their men are themselves immoral they offer sacrifices with prostitutes. These people who aren't discerning will stumble.
A Conservative Version
I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery. For themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes. And the people who do not understand shall be ove
American Standard Version
I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.
Amplified
I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute
Or your brides when they commit adultery,
For the men themselves slip away with prostitutes,
And they offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes [who give their bodies in honor of the idol].
So the people without understanding [stumble and fall and] come to ruin.
Bible in Basic English
I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.
Darby Translation
I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your daughters-in-law for their committing adultery; for they themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with prostitutes: and the people that doth not understand shall come to ruin.
King James 2000
I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for the men themselves are gone apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with prostitutes: therefore the people that do not understand shall fall.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{I will not punish your daughters} when they play the whore, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; because they go aside with whores, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes, a people that does not understand comes to ruin.
Modern King James verseion
I will not punish your daughters when they fornicate, nor your wives when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. The people who do not understand are thrown down.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will not punish your daughters for being defiled, and your brides that became whores: seeing the fathers themselves have meddled with harlots, and offered with unthriftiness: but the people that will not understand must be punished.
NET Bible
I will not punish your daughters when they commit prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men consort with harlots, they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. It is true: "A people that lacks understanding will come to ruin!"
New Heart English Bible
I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
The Emphasized Bible
I do not bring punishment upon your daughters when they become unchaste, nor upon your brides, when they commit adultery, for, the men themselves, with unchaste women, do seclude themselves, and, with the common women of the shrine, do offer sacrifice, - and, a people who will not discern, must be ruined.
Webster
I will not punish your daughters when they are guilty of lewdness, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for they themselves are separated with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
World English Bible
I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
Youngs Literal Translation
Therefore commit whoredom do your daughters, And your spouses commit adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And after your spouses when they commit adultery, For they with the harlots are separated, And with the whores they do sacrifice, A people that doth not understand kicketh.
Themes
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
Women » Harlots » Warnings against
Women » Wicked » Zeal of, in licentious practices of idolatry
Interlinear
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Zanah
Na'aph
Parad
Zanah
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 4:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Case Against The People
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. 14 I will not review over your daughters when they shall commit fornication, and over your brides when they shall commit adultery: fur they will separate themselves with harlots, and with prostitutes will they sacrifice: and the people will not understand, they shall be thrown down. 15 If thou Israel commit fornication Judah shall not transgress; and ye shall not come to Gilgal, and ye shall not go up to the house of vanity, and ye shall not swear, Jehovah lives.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel: for a contention to Jehovah with the inhabitants of the land, for no truth and no kindness and no knowledge of God in the land.
Deuteronomy 23:17
Thou shalt not be a harlot from the daughters of Israel, and a male prostitute from the sons of Israel.
1 Kings 14:23-24
And they will also build to them heights and statues, and pillars, upon every high hill, and, under every green tree.
1 Kings 15:12
And he will take away the holy places from the land, and he will turn aside all the blocks which his fathers made.
2 Kings 23:7
And he will break down the houses of the holy places, which were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove there houses for the image.
Proverbs 28:5
Men of evil shall not understand judgment: and they seeking Jehovah shall understand all.
Isaiah 1:5
For what shall ye be yet struck? will ye add apostasy? every head for sickness, and every heart sick
Isaiah 44:18-20
They will not know, and they will not discern: he spread over their eyes from seeing; their heart from considering.
Isaiah 56:11
And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity.
Daniel 12:10
And many shall be separated and become white, and be tried; and the unjust did evil: and all the unjust shall not understand; and the intelligent shall understand.
Hosea 4:5-6
And thou wert weak in the day, and the prophet also was weak with thee by night, and I destroyed thy mother.
Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to images: leave him.
Hosea 14:9
Who being wise, and he shall understand these things? and knowing, and he shall know them? for the ways of Jehovah are straight, and the just shall go in them: and they transgressing shall be weak in them.
John 8:43
Wherefore ye know not my speech, for ye cannot hear my word.
Romans 3:11
There is none understanding, there is none seeking God.
1 Corinthians 6:16
Or know ye not that he joined to a harlot is one body? for they shall be, he says, they two into one flesh.
Ephesians 4:18
Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;
Hebrews 12:8
And if ye are without correction, of which all are partakers, then are ye spurious, not sons.