Hosea 4:8
What does Hosea 4:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Hosea 4:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890They eat the sin of my people, and their soul longeth for their iniquity.
Context
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.
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