Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
they turn to promiscuity.
Israel’s leaders
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.
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.
American Standard Version
Their drink is 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
leave him alone!
they turn to promiscuity.
Israel’s leaders
and they will be ashamed of their sacrifices.
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Cross References
Micah 3:11
her priests teach for payment,
and her prophets practice divination for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,
“Isn’t the Lord
No disaster will overtake us.”
Exodus 23:8
You must not take a bribe,
Deuteronomy 16:19
Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 32:32-33
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poisonous;
their clusters are bitter.
1 Samuel 8:3
However, his sons did not walk in his ways—they turned toward dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
1 Samuel 12:3-4
Here I am. Bring charges against me before the Lord and His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken?
2 Kings 17:7-17
This disaster happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt
Psalm 47:9
with the people of the God of Abraham.
For the leaders
He is greatly exalted.
Proverbs 30:15-16
Three things
four never say, “Enough!”:
Isaiah 1:21-22
what an adulteress
She was once full of justice.
Righteousness once dwelt in her—
but now, murderers!
Jeremiah 2:21
from the very best seed.
How then could you turn into
a degenerate, foreign vine?
Hosea 4:2
and adultery
one act of bloodshed follows another.
Hosea 4:10
they will be promiscuous
For they have abandoned their devotion to the Lord.
Amos 5:12
and your sins innumerable.
They oppress the righteous,
and deprive the poor of justice
Micah 7:3
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.