Category: Hosea

American Standard Version (ASV):
Give them, O Jehovah–what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

King James Version (KJV):
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

King James Version (KJV):
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, [that there shall] not [be] a man [left]: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

American Standard Version (ASV):
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

King James Version (KJV):
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: [but] they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto [that] shame; and [their] abominations were according as they loved.

American Standard Version (ASV):
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

King James Version (KJV):
[As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Ephraim [was] a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler’s snare is in all his ways, [and] enmity in the house of his God.

King James Version (KJV):
The watchman of Ephraim [was] with my God: [but] the prophet [is] a snare of a fowler in all his ways, [and] hatred in the house of his God.

American Standard Version (ASV):
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

King James Version (KJV):
They have deeply corrupted [themselves], as in the days of Gibeah: [therefore] he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

American Standard Version (ASV):
For, lo, they are gone away from destruction; [yet] Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.

King James Version (KJV):
For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant [places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns [shall be] in their tabernacles.

American Standard Version (ASV):
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.

King James Version (KJV):
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know [it]: the prophet [is] a fool, the spiritual man [is] mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

American Standard Version (ASV):
They shall not pour out wine-[ offerings] to Jehovah, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted; for their bread shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.

King James Version (KJV):
They shall not offer wine [offerings] to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices [shall be] unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

American Standard Version (ASV):
What will ye do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah?

King James Version (KJV):
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?