Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And
Because their shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters play the harlot
And your
King James Version
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
Holman Bible
and they burn offerings on the hills,
and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
because their shade is pleasant.
And so your daughters act promiscuously
and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
International Standard Version
They offer sacrifices on the mountain tops, burning offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinth trees, since their shade is very good. Therefore your daughters are prostitutes and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
A Conservative Version
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow of it is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.
American Standard Version
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.
Amplified
They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
And burn incense on the hills,
Under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
Because the shade is pleasant there.
Therefore your daughters play the prostitute
And your brides commit adultery.
Bible in Basic English
They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.
Darby Translation
they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because the shade thereof is good; therefore your daughters play the harlot and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
Julia Smith Translation
Upon the heads of the mountains they will sacrifice, and upon the hills they will burn incense, under the oak and the white poplar and the terebinth, because its shadow was good: for this your daughters will commit fornication, and your brides shall commit adultery.
King James 2000
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because its shadow is good: therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
Lexham Expanded Bible
On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they make offerings, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and all your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
Modern King James verseion
They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because its shade is good. So your daughters shall be harlots, and your brides shall commit adultery.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They make sacrifices upon the high mountains, and burn their incense upon the hills, yea among the oaks, groves and bushes, for there are good shadows. Therefore your daughters are become harlots, and your spouses have broken their wedlock.
NET Bible
They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and burn offerings on the hills; they sacrifice under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is so pleasant. As a result, your daughters have become cult prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery!
New Heart English Bible
They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.
The Emphasized Bible
On the headlands of the mountains, they sacrifice, and, on the hills, burn they incense, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because, pleasant, is the shade thereof: For this cause, do your daughters, become unchaste, and, your brides, commit adultery.
Webster
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shade of them is agreeable: therefore your daughters shall be guilty of lewdness, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
World English Bible
They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.
Youngs Literal Translation
On tops of the mountains they do sacrifice, And on the hills they make perfume, Under oak, and poplar, and terebinth, For good is its shade.
Themes
Groves » Often on tops of hills
Mountain » Used for idolatrous worship
Oak Trees » The ancients often » Performed idolatrous rites under
Women » Wicked » Zeal of, in licentious practices of idolatry
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 4:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Case Against The People
12
For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
And they have played the harlot, departing
And
Because their shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters play the harlot
And your
Or your
For the men themselves go apart with harlots
And offer sacrifices with
So the people without understanding are
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 1:29
And you will be embarrassed at the
Jeremiah 3:6
Then the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She
Ezekiel 6:13
Then you will know that I am the Lord, when their
Amos 7:17
Therefore, thus says the Lord, ‘Your
2 Samuel 12:10-12
Now therefore,
Job 31:9-10
Or I have lurked at my neighbor’s doorway,
Isaiah 57:5
Who
Under the clefts of the crags?
Isaiah 57:7
You have
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
Jeremiah 2:20
And tore off your bonds;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on every
And under every green tree
You have lain down as a harlot.
Jeremiah 3:13
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God
And have
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:16
You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them,
Ezekiel 16:25
You built yourself a high place at the top of
Ezekiel 20:28-29
When I had
Hosea 2:13
When she used to
And
And follow her lovers, so that she
Hosea 11:2
The more they went from
They kept
And
Romans 1:23-28
and