Hosea 4:13

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit wredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shade thereof is good. Therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    They make sacrifice vpon the hie mountaynes, & burne their incense vpon the hilles, yee amonge the okes, groues & bu?shes, for there are good shadowes. Therfore yor doughters are become harlottes, and youre spouses haue broke their wedlocke

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    They sacrifice vpon the toppes of ye mountaines, and burne incense vpon the hilles vnder the okes, and the poplar tree, and the elme, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall be harlots, and your spouses shall be whores.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    They make sacrifices vpon the tops of the mountaines, and burne their incense vpon the hilles, yea vnder the okes, poplars, and elmes, for there are good shadowes: therfore your daughters are become harlots, and your spouses haue broken their wedlocke.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, And burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, Because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, And your brides commit adultery.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    On tops of the mountains they do sacrifice, And on the hills they make perfume, Under oak, and poplar, and terebinth, For good `is' its shade.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and burn offerings on the hills; they sacrifice under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is so pleasant. As a result, your daughters have become cult prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery!

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 1:29 : 29 You will be ashamed because of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush because of the gardens you have chosen.
  • Jer 3:6 : 6 During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has prostituted herself there."
  • Ezek 6:13 : 13 And you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols, around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every leafy tree, and under every thick oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
  • Amos 7:17 : 17 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up with a measuring line, and you yourself will die in a polluted land. Israel will surely go into exile away from their homeland.'
  • Rom 1:23-28 : 23 And they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, animals, and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is forever praised. Amen. 26 For this reason, God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature. 27 In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
  • Ezek 16:16 : 16 You took your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them, you committed prostitution. Such things should not have happened, nor should they occur.
  • Ezek 16:25 : 25 At the head of every street, you built your high places. You degraded your beauty by spreading your legs to every passerby and multiplied your acts of prostitution.
  • Ezek 20:28-29 : 28 When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there, provoked me with their offerings, placed their pleasing aromas, and poured out their drink offerings there. 29 I said to them: What is this high place to which you go? (It is called 'High Place' to this day.)
  • Hos 2:13 : 13 I will put an end to all her celebrations: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.
  • Hos 11:2 : 2 But the more they were called, the more they went away from them; they sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to the carved images.
  • Jer 3:13 : 13 Only acknowledge your guilt—that you have rebelled against the LORD your God, scattered your favors to strangers under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed my voice,' declares the LORD.
  • 2 Sam 12:10-12 : 10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.' 11 This is what the Lord says: 'Look, I am going to bring disaster upon you from within your own household. I will take your wives before your very eyes and give them to someone close to you, who will sleep with them in broad daylight. 12 You did it in secret, but I will make this happen in front of all Israel and in broad daylight.'
  • Job 31:9-9 : 9 If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door, 10 then may my wife grind grain for another, and may others kneel over her.
  • Isa 57:5 : 5 You burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; you slaughter children in the valleys, under crags of the cliffs.
  • Isa 57:7 : 7 You have placed your bed on a high and lofty mountain; there you went up to offer sacrifices.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, but you said, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Hos 4:14-15
    2 verses
    83%

    14I 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.

    15Though 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 4:12
    80%

    12My 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.

  • Isa 57:5
    76%

    5You burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; you slaughter children in the valleys, under crags of the cliffs.

  • Jer 17:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside the green trees on the high hills.

    3O my mountain in the field, I will give away your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, along with your high places, because of the sin committed throughout your borders.

  • Jer 5:7
    76%

    7How 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.

  • Exod 34:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15Be 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.

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

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    76%

    23They also built for themselves high places, sacred stones, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

    11There, on all the high places, they burned incense as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the Lord to anger.

  • Jer 2:20
    75%

    20For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, but you said, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

  • Ezek 23:37
    75%

    37For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, passing them through the fire as food for their idols.

  • Jer 3:6
    75%

    6During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has prostituted herself there."

  • Jer 3:2
    74%

    2Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been violated? By the roads you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

  • Jer 3:9
    74%

    9Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    73%

    4He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Hos 5:4
    73%

    4Their 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.

  • Jer 11:15
    73%

    15What right does my beloved have in my house, when she has done so many wicked schemes? Can consecrated meat remove your evil? Then you would exult!

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    72%

    11Jehoram also built high places in the hills of Judah, leading the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness and causing Judah to stray.

  • Ezek 16:20
    72%

    20You even took the sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to the idols as food. Was your prostitution not enough?

  • Isa 57:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7You have placed your bed on a high and lofty mountain; there you went up to offer sacrifices.

    8Behind your doors and doorposts you have set up your pagan symbols. Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, climbing into it and opening it wide; you made a pact with them, you loved their beds and gazed on their manhood.

  • Jer 11:13
    72%

    13For your gods, Judah, are as numerous as your cities; and the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal, are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 19:13
    72%

    13The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on their roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.

  • Ezek 20:28
    72%

    28When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there, provoked me with their offerings, placed their pleasing aromas, and poured out their drink offerings there.

  • 2 Kgs 16:4
    72%

    4He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Hos 13:2
    72%

    2Now they continue to sin and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully crafted from their silver, all of it the work of artisans. They say about them, 'Those who sacrifice kiss the calves!'

  • Ezek 22:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.

    11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    72%

    17They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire, practiced divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

  • Jer 7:18
    72%

    18The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods, provoking me to anger.

  • Ezek 23:30
    72%

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

  • Deut 12:31
    71%

    31You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because they practice for their gods every abomination that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

  • Ezek 6:13
    71%

    13And you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols, around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every leafy tree, and under every thick oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

  • Ezek 16:36
    71%

    36This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children you gave to them,

  • Ezek 20:30
    71%

    30Therefore, say to the house of Israel: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did and lust after their detestable things?'

  • Ezek 16:25
    71%

    25At the head of every street, you built your high places. You degraded your beauty by spreading your legs to every passerby and multiplied your acts of prostitution.

  • Ezek 16:16
    71%

    16You took your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them, you committed prostitution. Such things should not have happened, nor should they occur.

  • Mal 2:11
    71%

    11Judah has been unfaithful, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Nah 3:4
    71%

    4All 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.

  • Jer 13:27
    71%

    27Your adulteries, your lustful neighings, your wicked acts of prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable behavior. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How much longer will it be before you are made clean?

  • Jer 44:9
    71%

    9Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Hos 4:18
    71%

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

  • Lev 19:29
    71%

    29Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will become filled with wickedness.

  • Isa 1:29
    71%

    29You will be ashamed because of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush because of the gardens you have chosen.

  • Ezek 23:44
    71%

    44They went to her as men go to a prostitute. In the same way, they went to Oholah and Oholibah, the immoral women.

  • Judg 3:6
    70%

    6They took the daughters of these peoples as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to the sons of these peoples, and worshiped their gods.

  • Num 25:1
    70%

    1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the women of Moab.