Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
When their drinking has ended, they surely indulge in sexual orgies. They love lewdness more than their glory.
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.
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.
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 When their drinking has ended, they surely indulge in sexual orgies. They love lewdness more than their glory. 19 A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they will be ashamed because of their altars.
Cross References
Micah 3:11
Its rulers judge for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money. But they lean on Yahweh, saying, "[Is] not Yahweh in our midst? Disaster will not come upon us."
Exodus 23:8
And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not subvert justice; you shall not {show partiality}; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind [the] eyes of [the] wise and misrepresents [the] words of [the] righteous.
Deuteronomy 32:32-33
For their vine [is] from the vine of Sodom, and from the terraces of Gomorrah; their grapes [are] grapes of poison; {their clusters are bitter}.
1 Samuel 8:3
But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after gain, they took bribes, and they perverted justice.
1 Samuel 12:3-4
Here I am! Testify against me before Yahweh and before his anointed one! Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I exploited? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, that I may shut my eyes {regarding} him?-then I will restore it to you."
2 Kings 17:7-17
Now [this] happened because the {Israelites} had sinned against Yahweh their God when he brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt and they feared other gods.
Psalm 47:9
[The] princes of [the] peoples are gathered together [with] the people of Abraham's God. For [the] shields of [the] earth belong to God. He is very exalted.
Proverbs 30:15-16
For the leech, [there are] two daughters; "Give, give!" [they cry]. As for three of these, they are not satisfied; as for four, they do not say enough.
Isaiah 1:21-22
How has a faithful city become like a whore? Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I planted you [as] a choice vine, all of it a seed of trustworthiness. How then have you altered before me [into something that is] degenerate, the foreign vine?
Hosea 4:2
Swearing and lying, murdering and stealing, and adultery break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Hosea 4:10
They will eat and not be satisfied; they will play the whore and not multiply, because they have forsaken Yahweh {to devote themselves to
Amos 5:12
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
Micah 7:3
Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together.