Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies.
New American Standard Bible
And the princes with their
King James Version
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Holman Bible
the princes with their lies.
International Standard Version
They please the king with their evil, and the princes with their dishonesty.
A Conservative Version
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the rulers with their lies.
American Standard Version
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Amplified
They make the king glad with their wickedness,
And the princes with their lies.
Bible in Basic English
In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
Darby Translation
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Julia Smith Translation
By their evil they will gladden the king, and the chiefs by their falsehoods.
King James 2000
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Lexham Expanded Bible
By their wickedness they make [the] king glad, and [the] officials by their treacheries.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They make the king and the princes, to have pleasure in their wickedness and lies.
NET Bible
The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.
New Heart English Bible
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
The Emphasized Bible
By their wickedness, they gladden a king, and, by their flatteries, - rulers.
Webster
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
World English Bible
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Youngs Literal Translation
With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 7:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ephraim's Guilt
2 And they do not say within their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own doings have hemmed them in; they are before My face. 3 They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies. 4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker; he stops stirring, from kneading the dough, while it is leavened.
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Cross References
Micah 7:3
Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.
Romans 1:32
who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing them.
Jeremiah 28:1-4
And it happened in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Jehovah, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
1 Kings 22:6
And the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth in Gilead to battle, or shall I hold back? And they said, Go up! For Jehovah shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
1 Kings 22:13
And the messenger that had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets are good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it?
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for traveling men, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah 37:19
Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you nor against this land?
Hosea 4:2
There is lying, and swearing, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery; and blood touches blood.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is crushed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
Hosea 7:5
In the day of our king, the rulers have sickened themselves with the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.
Amos 7:10-13
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has plotted against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.
Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, so that I should make you a ruin and its people a hissing; therefore you shall bear the shame of My people.
1 John 4:5
They are of the world, therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.