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


In Context

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

11 to prostitution, to old wine and new, which take away the understanding

Hosea 4:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their devices.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And it shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9And it shall be as the people so the priest; and I will visit their ways upon them, and recompense to them their doings;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And it shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and will reward them their doings.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.