Hosea 7:3
What does Hosea 7:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Hosea 7:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies--princes.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Context
v.2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they are before my face.
v.3This passage
v.4They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
- Hosea 4:2
There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
- Micah 7:3
Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.
- Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
- 1 Kings 22:6
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.
- Romans 1:32
who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.
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