4"Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the Lord .


In Context

1 "Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen, O royal house! This judgment is against you: You have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

2 The rebels are deep in slaughter. I will discipline all of them.

3 I know all about Ephraim; Israel is not hidden from me. Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution; Israel is corrupt.

4 "Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the Lord .

5 Israel's arrogance testifies against them; the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin; Judah also stumbles with them.

6 When they go with their flocks and herds to seek the Lord , they will not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.

Hosea 5:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:4They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms [is] in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:4They will not set their thoughts to return to their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:4Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4Their doings do not allow them to return unto their God; for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they know not Jehovah.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:4Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4They will not frame their doings to turn to their God: for the spirit of lewdness is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don't know Yahweh.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4They give not up their habitual doings, To turn back unto their God, For a spirit of whoredoms is in their midst, And Jehovah they have not known.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:4They will not frame their doings to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitutions is in the middle of them, and they have not known the LORD.