Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They make the king and the princes, to have pleasure in their wickedness and 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 King James verseion
They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their 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 They consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. They go about with their own inventions, but I see them well enough. 3 They make the king and the princes, to have pleasure in their wickedness and lies. 4 All these burn in adultery, as it were an oven that the baker heateth when he hath left kneading, till the dough be leavened.
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Cross References
Micah 7:3
yet they say they do well when they do evil. As the prince will, so sayeth the judge: that he may do him a pleasure again. The great man speaketh what his heart desireth; and the hearers allow him.
Romans 1:32
Which men, though they knew the righteousness of God, how that they which such things commit are worthy of death: yet not only do the same, but also have pleasure in them that do them.
Jeremiah 28:1-4
And this was done in the same year: even in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah. But in the fourth year of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth Month, it happened, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet of Gibeon, spake to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, and said,
1 Kings 22:6
And then the king of Israel gathered of the Prophets together, upon a four hundred men, and said unto them, "Shall I go to Ramoth in Gilead to battle, or be still?" And they said, "Go: for the Lord shall deliver it into the hands of the king."
1 Kings 22:13
And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah, said unto him, "See, the words of the Prophets speak good unto the king with one voice: let thy words, I pray thee, be like the words of one of them, and speak that is good."
Jeremiah 5:31
The Prophets teach falsely, and the priests follow them, and my people hath pleasure therein. What will come thereof at the last?
Jeremiah 9:2
Would God that I had a cottage somewhere far from folk, that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort.
Jeremiah 37:19
Where are your prophets which have prophesied unto you, and said that the king of Babylon should not come against you and this land?
Hosea 4:2
but swearing, lying, manslaughter, theft, and adultery have gotten the overhand; and one bloodguiltiness followeth another.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed, and can have no right of the law. For why? They follow the doctrines of men.
Hosea 7:5
Even so goeth it this day with our kings and princes, for they begin to be wood drunken through wine: they use familiarity with such as deceive them.
Amos 7:10-13
Upon this sent Amaziah the priest to Bethel unto Jeroboam the king of Israel, saying, "Amos maketh the house of Israel to rebel against thee; the land cannot away with his words.
Micah 6:16
Ye keep the ordinances of Omri, and all the customs of the house of Ahab: Ye follow their pleasures, therefore will I make thee waste, and cause thy inhabiters to be abhorred, O my people: and thus shalt thou bear thine own shame.
1 John 4:5
They be of the world, and therefore speak they of the world, and the world attendeth unto them.