Hosea 4:14

Hosea chapter 4 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Context

v.13They 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.

v.14This passage

v.15Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah liveth.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Ephesians 4:18
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;
2 Kings 23:7
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
Isaiah 1:5
Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Hosea 4:5
And thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.
Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
1 Kings 14:23
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;