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Hosea 4:8

Hosea chapter 4 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

Context

v.7As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.

v.8This passage

v.9And it shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.

Cross references

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

  • Ezekiel 14:3

    Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

  • Ezekiel 14:7

    For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Jehovah will answer him by myself:

  • Micah 3:11

    The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

  • Leviticus 7:6

    Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in a holy place: it is most holy.

  • Psalms 25:1

    Unto thee, O Jehovah, do I lift up my soul.

  • Titus 1:11

    whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.