Hosea 4:18New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Their liquor gone, They play the harlot continually; Their rulers dearly love shame.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers [with] shame do love, Give ye.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Their drink is become sour: they commit whoredom continually; her rulers dearly love shame.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Their drink is sour: they have been guilty of lewd deeds continually: her rulers [with] shame do love, Give ye.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Their drink is sour; they give themselves up to whoredom; her great men passionately love [their] shame.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Their drinking-bout, having passed,—they became, unchaste, they loved wildly, a contempt, became her great men.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Sour [is] their drink, They have gone diligently a-whoring, Her protectors have loved shame thoroughly.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by fornication: they that should have protected them have loved to bring shame upon them.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Their drunkennes stinketh: they haue committed whoredome: their rulers loue to say with shame, Bring ye.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Their drinke is sowre: they haue committed whordome continually: her rulers [with] shame doe loue, Giue ye.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— They all commit whoredom, and they love shame and idolatry.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— He has chosen the Canaanites{gr.Chananites}: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers [with] shame do love, Give ye. |
Their drink
5435 {5435} Primeסֹבֶאcobe'{so'-beh}
From H5433; potation, concretely ( wine), or abstractly ( carousal).
is sour:
5493 {5493} Primeסוּרcuwr{soor}
A primitive root; to turn off (literally or figuratively).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
they have committed whoredom
y2181 [2181] Standardזָנָהzanah{zaw-naw'}
A primitive root (highly fed and therefore wanton); to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple forniciation, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah).
z8689 <8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2675
continually:
2181 {2181} Primeזָנָהzanah{zaw-naw'}
A primitive root (highly fed and therefore wanton); to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple forniciation, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah).
z8687 <8687> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Infinitive (See H8812) Count - 1162
her rulers
4043 {4043} Primeמָגֵןmagen{maw-gane'}
From H1598; a shield (that is, the small one or buckler); figuratively a protector; also the scaly hide of the crocodile.
[ with] shame
7036 {7036} Primeקָלוֹןqalown{kaw-lone'}
From H7034; disgrace; (by implication) the pudenda.
do love,
157 {0157} Primeאָהַב'ahab{aw-hab'}
A primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
Give
3051 {3051} Primeיָהַבyahab{yaw-hab'}
A primitive root; to give (whether literally or figuratively); generally to put; imperatively (reflexively) come.
z8798 <8798> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperative (See H8810) Count - 2847
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Hosea 4:18
_ _ Their drink is sour — metaphor for utter degeneracy of principle (Isaiah 1:22). Or, unbridled licentiousness; not mere ordinary sin, but as abandoned as drunkards who vomit and smell sour with wine potations [Calvin]. Maurer not so well translates, “When their drinking is over, they commit whoredoms,” namely, in honor of Astarte (Hosea 4:13, Hosea 4:14).
_ _ her rulers — Israel’s; literally, “shields” (compare Psalms 47:9).
_ _ with shame ... love, Give ye — (Proverbs 30:15). No remedy could be effectual against their corruptions since the very rulers sold justice for gifts [Calvin]. Maurer translates, “The rulers are marvelously enamored of shame.” English Version is better. |
Hosea 4:18
Their drink — Their wine is corrupt and hurtful. Continually — Without ceasing from Jeroboam's time to this day. Give ye — Beside there is shameful oppression and bribery among them. |
Hosea 4:18
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers [with] shame do love, (x) Give ye.
(x) They are so shameless in receiving bribes, that they command men to bring them to them. |
- drink:
Deuteronomy 32:32-33 For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are] bitter: ... Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Isaiah 1:21-22 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. ... Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Jeremiah 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
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- committed:
Hosea 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Hosea 4:10 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.
2 Kings 17:7-17 For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, ... And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
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- her:
Exodus 23:8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 16:19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
1 Samuel 12:3-4 Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. ... And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
Proverbs 30:15-16 The horseleach hath two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough: ... The grave; and the barren womb; the earth [that] is not filled with water; and the fire [that] saith not, [It is] enough.
Amos 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
Micah 3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
Micah 7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
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- rulers:
- Heb. shields,
Psalms 47:9 The princes of the people are gathered together, [even] the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth [belong] unto God: he is greatly exalted.
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