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


In Context

1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah.

2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, 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 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.

6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

Hosea 2:4 in Other Translations

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:4And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are the children of fornications.

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.