Hosea 4:10

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

They will eat but not be satisfied; they will commit fornication but not multiply, because they have abandoned the LORD to pursue their own ways.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit wredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    For they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase, because they have ceased taking heed to the LORD.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they shall eat,{H398} and not have enough;{H7646} they shall play the harlot,{H2181} and shall not increase;{H6555} because they have left off{H5800} taking heed{H8104} to Jehovah.{H3068}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For they shall eat{H398}{(H8804)}, and not have enough{H7646}{(H8799)}: they shall commit whoredom{H2181}{(H8689)}, and shall not increase{H6555}{(H8799)}: because they have left off{H5800}{(H8804)} to take heed{H8104}{(H8800)} to the LORD{H3068}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    They shal eate, & not haue ynough: They haue vsed whordome, therfore shall they not prospere: & why? they haue forsaken the LORDE, & not regarded him.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For they shall eate, and not haue ynough: they shall commit adulterie, & shall not increase, because they haue left off to take heede to ye Lord.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    They shal eate and not haue inough, they haue vsed whordome, but shall not prosper, they haue forsaken the Lorde, and not regarded him.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; Because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And they have eaten, and are not satisfied, They have gone a-whoring, and increase not, For they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They will eat, but not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution, but not increase in numbers; because they have abandoned the LORD by pursuing other gods.

Referenced Verses

  • Mic 6:14 : 14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.
  • Lev 26:26 : 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.
  • Hag 1:6 : 6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but are never satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be filled. You put on clothes but are not warm. The one who earns wages earns them to put into a bag with holes.
  • Mal 2:1-3 : 1 And now, this command is for you, O priests. 2 If you do not listen and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name, says the Lord of Hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not take it to heart. 3 Behold, I will rebuke your descendants and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your feasts, and it will be carried away with you.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 And I will remove those who turn back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.
  • 2 Chr 24:17 : 17 After the death of Jehoiada, the officials of Judah came and bowed before the king, and the king listened to their advice.
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, thinking his iniquity will not be discovered or hated.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
  • Prov 13:25 : 25 The righteous eat to their heart's content, but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry.
  • Isa 65:13-16 : 13 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, my servants will eat, but you will go hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.' 14 Behold, my servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from the pain of your hearts and wail from a broken spirit. 15 You will leave behind your name as a curse for my chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will put you to death; but to his servants, he will give another name. 16 Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the past troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes.
  • Jer 34:15 : 15 Recently, you repented and did what is right in my sight by proclaiming freedom, each man for his neighbor. You made a covenant before me in the house where my name is called upon.
  • Ezek 18:24 : 24 But if a righteous person turns away from their righteousness and commits sin, doing the same detestable things the wicked do, will they live? None of the righteous deeds they have done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.
  • Hos 4:14 : 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots and sacrifice with temple prostitutes, and a people without understanding will come to ruin.
  • Hos 9:11-17 : 11 Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird—no birth, no pregnancy, no conception. 12 Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them! 13 Ephraim, as I have seen, was like Tyre, planted in a pleasant meadow. But Ephraim will lead their children out to be slaughtered. 14 Give them, LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry. 15 All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. Because of their evil deeds, I will drive them from My house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious. 16 Ephraim is struck down; their root is dried up; they will bear no fruit. Even if they give birth, I will kill their cherished offspring. 17 My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; they will become wanderers among the nations.
  • 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 For if, after escaping the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 Of them the true proverb has come true: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, "A sow that is washed returns to wallowing in the mud."

Similar Verses (AI)

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    80%

    3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the harlot; Israel is defiled.

    4 Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.

  • Hos 4:11-15
    5 verses
    78%

    11 Fornication, wine, and new wine take away the heart and understanding.

    12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their staffs provide guidance for them. A spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they have been unfaithful under their God.

    13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

    14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots and sacrifice with temple prostitutes, and a people without understanding will come to ruin.

    15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, let not Judah become guilty. Do not go to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth Aven, and do not swear, 'As surely as the LORD lives!'

  • Hos 4:18
    76%

    18 Their drink has turned them aside; they persist in their immorality. They love shame more than their honor.

  • Jer 5:7-8
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    74%

    7 How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

    8 They were like well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife.

  • Hos 4:6-9
    4 verses
    74%

    6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

    7 The more they increased, the more they sinned against me. I will turn their glory into shame.

    8 They feed on the sins of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

    9 And it will be like people, like priest. I will punish them for their ways, and repay them for their deeds.

  • Hos 5:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 With their flocks and herds they will go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

    7 They have been unfaithful to the Lord; they have had illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them along with their fields.

  • Ezek 16:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28 You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were never satisfied. Even after prostituting yourself with them, you were not satisfied.

    29 You also multiplied your promiscuity in the land of Canaan and even with the Chaldeans, yet even with this, you were not satisfied.

  • Hos 2:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 Plead with your mother, plead! For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her adulteries from before her face and her unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

    5 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, expose her as on the day of her birth. I will make her like a wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.

  • Hos 9:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 Do not rejoice, Israel, like other nations, for you have been unfaithful to your God. You have loved the wages of a prostitute on every threshing floor of grain.

    2 The threshing floor and the winepress will not provide for them, and the new wine will fail them.

  • Jer 14:10
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    10 This is what the LORD says about this people: They love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their guilt and punish their sins.

  • Ezek 16:35
    72%

    35 Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD.

  • Jer 8:10
    72%

    10 Therefore, I will give their wives to others and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
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    5 'Those who were full hire themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. The barren woman has borne seven children, but she who has many sons languishes.'

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    71%

    14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They gather together for grain and new wine but turn away from me.

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    14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.

  • Ezek 23:29-30
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    71%

    29 They will deal with you in hatred, take away all you have worked for, and leave you naked and bare. The shame of your prostitution will be exposed—your lewdness and promiscuity.

    30 These things will be done to you because you prostituted yourself to the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

  • Exod 34:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices.

    16 And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.

  • Ps 14:4
    71%

    4 Do all the evildoers not understand? They devour my people as if they were eating bread, but they do not call upon the LORD.

  • Judg 2:17
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    17 Yet they did not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves by worshiping other gods. They turned quickly from the way their ancestors had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments. They did not do as their ancestors had done.

  • Jer 9:13
    71%

    13 Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7 'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.'

  • Ezek 16:41
    71%

    41 They will burn down your houses and execute judgment on you in the sight of many women. I will bring an end to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay fees to anyone.

  • Prov 4:17
    71%

    17 They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • Jer 22:9
    70%

    9 And the answer will be: 'Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped and served other gods.'

  • Hos 13:6
    70%

    6 As they were fed, they were satisfied; as they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and so they forgot me.

  • Job 24:10
    70%

    10 They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.

  • Ezek 4:17
    70%

    17 'In this way, they will lack bread and water, and they will be appalled at one another and waste away because of their iniquity.'

  • Jer 10:21
    70%

    21 The shepherds are senseless and do not seek the Lord; therefore they do not prosper, and all their flock is scattered.

  • Ezek 23:8
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    8 She did not abandon the adulteries she began in Egypt, where men slept with her in her youth, fondling her virgin breasts and pouring out their lust upon her.

  • Hos 9:4
    70%

    4 They will no longer pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him. Their sacrifices will be like the bread of mourners; all who eat it will become defiled. Their food will only satisfy their own appetite; it will not enter the house of the LORD.

  • Ezek 16:32
    70%

    32 You adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • Jer 16:11
    70%

    11 Then you are to answer them: 'It is because your ancestors abandoned Me,' declares the LORD, 'and followed other gods, served them, and worshiped them. But they abandoned Me and did not keep My law.

  • Isa 5:13
    70%

    13 Therefore, my people have gone into exile because of lack of knowledge; their nobles are dying of hunger, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

  • Nah 3:4
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    4 All this because of the abundant prostitution of a well-favored harlot, a skilled sorceress, who ensnares nations with her lust and peoples with her witchcraft.

  • Amos 8:12
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    12 They will wander from sea to sea and from north to east; they will roam about seeking the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.