4And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are the children of fornications.


In Context

1 Say ye to your brethren: You are my people, and to your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy.

2 Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.

3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through, and will kill her with drought.

4 And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are the children of fornications.

5 For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink.

6 Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.

Hosea 2:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of whoredoms.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:4I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:4Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:4Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they be children of whoredom.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of lewdness.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms are they,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:4And I will not have mercy on her children; for they be the children of prostitutions.