Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
Holman Bible
they have an appetite for their transgressions.
International Standard Version
They feed on the sin of my people; they purpose in their heart to transgress.
A Conservative Version
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
American Standard Version
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
Amplified
They (the priests)
And set their heart on their wickedness.
Bible in Basic English
The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.
Darby Translation
They eat the sin of my people, and their soul longeth for their iniquity.
Julia Smith Translation
They will eat up the sin of my people, and they will lift up their soul to their iniquity.
King James 2000
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{They feed on the sin of my people}, {they are greedy} for their iniquity.
Modern King James verseion
They eat up the sin of My people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They eat up the sins of my people, and courage them in their wickedness.
NET Bible
They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!
New Heart English Bible
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
The Emphasized Bible
The sin of my people, they do eat, - and. unto their iniquity, lift they up every man his desire.
Webster
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
World English Bible
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 4:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lord Accuses The Priests
7 According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, Their honour into shame I change. 8 The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul. 9 And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.
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Cross References
Isaiah 56:11
And the dogs are strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they are shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter:
Micah 3:11
Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, 'Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'
Leviticus 6:26
'The priest who is making atonement with it doth eat it, in the holy place it is eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting;
Leviticus 7:6-7
Every male among the priests doth eat it; in the holy place it is eaten -- it is most holy;
1 Samuel 2:29
Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded in My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people?
Psalm 24:4
The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.
Psalm 25:1
By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, my soul I lift up.
Ezekiel 14:3
'Son of man, these men have caused their idols to go up on their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity they have put over-against their faces; am I inquired of at all by them?
Ezekiel 14:7
for every one of the house of Israel, and of the sojourners who doth sojourn in Israel, who is separated from after Me, and doth cause his idols to go up unto his heart, and the stumbling-block of his iniquity setteth over-against his face, and hath come in unto the prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I, Jehovah, have answered him for Myself;
Malachi 1:10
Who is even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand.
Romans 16:18
for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,
Titus 1:11
whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
2 Peter 2:3
and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.