Hosea 4:9
What does Hosea 4:9 mean?
A plain-English look at Hosea 4:9 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And it shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And it shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their devices.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And it shall be as the people so the priest; and I will visit their ways upon them, and recompense to them their doings;
Context
Cross references
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.
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