Hosea 4:9

Hosea chapter 4 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

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World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

v.9This passage

v.10And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.

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

Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
Jeremiah 23:11
for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
Matthew 15:14
Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.
Isaiah 9:14
Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.