Parallel Verses
King James Version
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
New American Standard Bible
Because they are
Holman Bible
because they are the children of promiscuity.
International Standard Version
Furthermore, I'll not show pity on her children, since they are children of prostitution.
A Conservative Version
Yea, I will have no mercy upon her sons, for they are sons of whoredom,
American Standard Version
Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;
Amplified
“Also, I will have no mercy on her children,
Because they are the children of prostitution.
Bible in Basic English
And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.
Darby Translation
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.
Julia Smith Translation
And her sons I will not compassionate, for they are the sons of fornications
King James 2000
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of harlotry.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And I will not have pity on her children, because [they are] children of whoredom.
Modern King James verseion
And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of adulteries.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I shall have no pity also upon her children, for they be the children of fornication.
NET Bible
I will have no pity on her children, because they are children conceived in adultery.
New Heart English Bible
Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;
The Emphasized Bible
And, on her children, not have compassion, - because, the children of paramours, they are.
Webster
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of lewdness.
World English Bible
Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;
Youngs Literal Translation
And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms are they,
Interlinear
Racham
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 2:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Adultery Rebuked
3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 13:14
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Hosea 1:2
The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
Hosea 1:6
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
2 Kings 9:22
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
Isaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Isaiah 57:3
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
Jeremiah 16:5
For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
Ezekiel 9:10
And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
Zechariah 1:12
Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
John 8:41
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Romans 9:18
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Romans 11:22
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
James 2:13
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.