8They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness.


In Context

5 You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother-

6 my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. "Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.

7 The more the priests increased, the more they sinned against me; they exchanged their Glory for something disgraceful.

8 They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness.

9 And it will be: Like people, like priests. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.

10 "They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution but not increase, because they have deserted the Lord to give themselves

Hosea 4:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:8They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:8They eat the sin of my people, and their soul longeth for their iniquity.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:8The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.