Parallel Verses
Amplified
They make the king glad with their wickedness,
And the princes with their lies.
New American Standard Bible
And the princes with their
King James Version
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Holman Bible
the princes with their lies.
International Standard Version
They please the king with their evil, and the princes with their dishonesty.
A Conservative Version
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the rulers with their lies.
American Standard Version
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Bible in Basic English
In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
Darby Translation
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Julia Smith Translation
By their evil they will gladden the king, and the chiefs by their falsehoods.
King James 2000
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Lexham Expanded Bible
By their wickedness they make [the] king glad, and [the] officials by their treacheries.
Modern King James verseion
They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They make the king and the princes, to have pleasure in their wickedness and lies.
NET Bible
The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.
New Heart English Bible
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
The Emphasized Bible
By their wickedness, they gladden a king, and, by their flatteries, - rulers.
Webster
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
World English Bible
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Youngs Literal Translation
With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 7:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ephraim's Guilt
2
But they do not consider in their hearts (minds)
That I remember [always] all their wickedness.
Now their deeds surround and entangle them;
They are before My face.
They make the king glad with their wickedness,
And the princes with their lies.
They are all adulterers;
Like the heat of an oven
When the baker ceases to stir the fire, [their passion smolders]
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
Names
Cross References
Micah 7:3
Concerning evil, both of their hands pursue it and do it diligently and thoroughly;
The prince asks, also the judge, for a bribe,
And a great man speaks the [evil] desire of his soul.
So they twist the course of justice between them.
Romans 1:32
Although they know God’s righteous decree and His judgment, that those who do such things deserve death, yet they not only do them, but they even [enthusiastically] approve and tolerate others who practice them.
Jeremiah 28:1-4
In the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and the fifth month, the [false] prophet Hananiah the son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon [one of the priests’ cities], spoke [without godly authority] to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying:
1 Kings 22:6
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or should I not?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord has handed it over to the king.”
1 Kings 22:13
Then the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests rule
And My people love [to have] it so!
But what will you do when the end comes?
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness
A lodging place (a mere shelter) for wayfaring men,
That I might leave my people
And go away from them!
For they are all adulterers [worshiping idols instead of the Lord],
[They are] an assembly of treacherous men [of weak character, men without integrity].
Jeremiah 37:19
Where then are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land?’
Hosea 4:2
There is [false] swearing of oaths, deception (broken faith), murder, stealing, and adultery;
They employ violence, so that one [act of] bloodshed follows closely on another.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed; he is broken and crushed by [divine] judgment,
Because he was determined to follow man’s command
Hosea 7:5
On the [special] day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine;
The king stretched out his hand [in association] with scoffers (lawless people).
Amos 7:10-13
Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel [site of the golden calf shrine], sent word to
Micah 6:16
“For [you have kept] the statutes of Omri [the idolatrous king],
And all the works of the [wicked] house (dynasty) of Ahab;
And you walk in their counsels and policies.
Therefore, I shall hand you over for destruction and horror
And your [city’s] inhabitants for ridicule,
And you shall bear the rebuke and scorn of My people.”
1 John 4:5
They [who teach twisted doctrine] are of the world and belong to it; therefore they speak from the [viewpoint of the] world [with its immoral freedom and baseless theories—demanding compliance with their opinions and ridiculing the values of the upright], and the [gullible one of the] world listens closely and pays attention to them.