Hosea 2:4
Hosea chapter 2 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;
KJV
King James Version · 1611And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;
Context
v.3lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
v.4This passage
v.5for their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore will I also deal in wrath; mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
- Isaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
- Isaiah 57:3
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
- Hosea 1:6
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And Jehovah said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them.
- Romans 9:18
So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth.
- 2 Kings 9:22
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?