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


In Context

1 "Say of your brothers, 'My people,' and of your sisters, 'My loved one.'

2 "Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

3 Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.

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

5 Their mother has been unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace. She said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.'

6 Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

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 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.