Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.
New American Standard Bible
They play the harlot continually;
King James Version
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
Holman Bible
they turn to promiscuity.
Israel’s leaders
International Standard Version
While drinking to excess, they prostitute themselves. They're in love with dishonor.
A Conservative Version
Their drink has become sour. They play the harlot continually. Her rulers dearly love shame.
Amplified
When their liquor is gone [and their drinking parties are over],
They habitually go to play the prostitute;
Ephraim’s rulers continue to dearly love shame [more than her glory which is the Lord, Israel’s God].
Bible in Basic English
Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.
Darby Translation
Their drink is sour; they give themselves up to whoredom; her great men passionately love their shame.
Julia Smith Translation
Their drinking bout departed: committing fornication, they committed fornication: they loved, give ye shame upon her shields.
King James 2000
Their drink is sour: they have committed harlotry continually: her rulers love shame more than glory.
Lexham Expanded Bible
When their drinking has ended, they surely indulge in sexual orgies. They love lewdness more than their glory.
Modern King James verseion
Their drink is sour; they are continually fornicating; her rulers dearly love shame.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Their drunkenness hath put them back, and brought them to whoredom. Their rulers love rewards; "Bring," say they, to their own shame.
NET Bible
They consume their alcohol, then engage in cult prostitution; they dearly love their shameful behavior.
New Heart English Bible
Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
The Emphasized Bible
Their drinking-bout, having passed, - they became, unchaste, they loved wildly, a contempt, became her great men.
Webster
Their drink is sour: they have been guilty of lewd deeds continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
World English Bible
Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
Youngs Literal Translation
Sour is their drink, They have gone diligently a-whoring, Her protectors have loved shame thoroughly.
Interlinear
Zanah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 4:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Case Against The People
17 Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone. 18 Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame. 19 The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be put to shame because of their sacrifices.
Cross References
Micah 3:11
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
Exodus 23:8
And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 16:19
Thou shalt not wrest justice: thou shalt not respect persons; neither shalt thou take a bribe; for a bribe doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 32:32-33
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:
1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
1 Samuel 12:3-4
Here I am: witness against me before Jehovah, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
2 Kings 17:7-17
And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
Psalm 47:9
The princes of the peoples are gathered together To be the people of the God of Abraham: For the shields of the earth belong unto God; He is greatly exalted.
Proverbs 30:15-16
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying , Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, Yea , four that say not, Enough:
Isaiah 1:21-22
How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?
Hosea 4:2
There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Hosea 4:10
And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.
Amos 5:12
For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins-ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right .
Micah 7:3
Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.