Hosea 4:18
New International Version
Even when their drinks are gone, they continue their prostitution; their rulers dearly love shameful ways.

New Living Translation
When the rulers of Israel finish their drinking, off they go to find some prostitutes. They love shame more than honor.

English Standard Version
When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring; their rulers dearly love shame.

Berean Standard Bible
When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.

King James Bible
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

New King James Version
Their drink is rebellion, They commit harlotry continually. Her rulers dearly love dishonor.

New American Standard Bible
Their liquor is gone, They prostitute themselves continually; Their rulers dearly love shame.

NASB 1995
Their liquor gone, They play the harlot continually; Their rulers dearly love shame.

NASB 1977
Their liquor gone, They play the harlot continually; Their rulers dearly love shame.

Legacy Standard Bible
Their drink gone; They play the harlot continually; Their rulers dearly love disgrace.

Amplified Bible
When their liquor is gone [and their drinking parties are over], They habitually go to play the prostitute; Ephraim’s rulers continue to dearly love shame [more than her glory which is the LORD, Israel’s God].

Christian Standard Bible
When their drinking is over, they turn to promiscuity. Israel’s leaders fervently love disgrace.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When their drinking is over, they turn to promiscuity. Israel’s leaders fervently love disgrace.

American Standard Version
Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
All of them have committed whoredom and they loved disgrace and fear

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.

Contemporary English Version
You get drunk, then sleep with prostitutes; you would rather be vulgar than lead a decent life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by fornication: they that should have protected them have loved to bring shame upon them.

English Revised Version
Their drink is become sour: they commit whoredom continually; her rulers dearly love shame.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When they're done drinking their wine, they continue to have sex with the prostitutes. Their rulers dearly love to act shamefully.

Good News Translation
After drinking much wine, they delight in their prostitution, preferring disgrace to honor.

International Standard Version
While drinking to excess, they prostitute themselves. They're in love with dishonor.

JPS Tanakh 1917
When their carouse is over, They take to harlotry; Her rulers deeply love dishonour.

Literal Standard Version
Sour [is] their drink, | They have gone whoring diligently, | Her protectors have thoroughly loved shame.

Majority Standard Bible
When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.

New American Bible
When their drinking is over, they give themselves to prostitution; they love shame more than their honor.

NET Bible
They consume their alcohol, then engage in cult prostitution; they dearly love their shameful behavior.

New Revised Standard Version
When their drinking is ended, they indulge in sexual orgies; they love lewdness more than their glory.

New Heart English Bible
Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

Webster's Bible Translation
Their drink is sour: they have been guilty of lewd deeds continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

World English Bible
Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

Young's Literal Translation
Sour is their drink, They have gone diligently a-whoring, Her protectors have loved shame thoroughly.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
God's Charges Against Israel
17Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone! 18When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace. 19The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.…

Cross References
Genesis 38:24
About three months later, Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant." "Bring her out!" Judah replied. "Let her be burned to death!"

Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.

Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, "Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us."


Treasury of Scripture

Their drink is sour: they have committed prostitution continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give you.

drink.

Deuteronomy 32:32,33
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: …

Isaiah 1:21,22
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers…

Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

sour.

Hosea 4:2,10
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood…

2 Kings 17:7-17
For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, …

her.

Exodus 23:8
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 16:19
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

rulers.

Psalm 47:9
The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

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Band Bitter Carouse Committed Completely Continually Continue Dearly Deeds Deeply Dishonour Drink Drinks Drunkards False. Glory Great Guilty Harlot Harlotry Love Passionately Play Pleasure Prostitute Rulers Shame Shameful Sour Themselves Way Ways Whoredom
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Band Bitter Carouse Committed Completely Continually Continue Dearly Deeds Deeply Dishonour Drink Drinks Drunkards False. Glory Great Guilty Harlot Harlotry Love Passionately Play Pleasure Prostitute Rulers Shame Shameful Sour Themselves Way Ways Whoredom
Hosea 4
1. God denounces judgments on Israel, for their aggravated impieties and iniquities.
12. He exposes the ignorance and wickedness of the priests,
13. and moral dissolution of the people,
14. he will leave their wives and daughters to commit lewdness, without present punishment.
15. He warns Judah, not to imitate Israel's crimes, which are still further reproved.














(18, 19) The Authorised version is here very defective. Translate, Their carousal hath become degraded; with whoring they whore. Her shields love shame. A blast hath seized her in its wings, so that they are covered with shame for their offerings. "Shields" mean the princes of the people, as in Psalm 47:9. The fern. "her" in these verses refers to Ephraim, in accordance with the common Hebrew idiom. The change of person to the masculine plural is characteristic of the style of Hebrew prophecy. The storm-wind hath seized upon her with its wings--carried her away like a swarm of locusts or a baffled bird.

Verses 18, 19. - The first of these two verses gives a picture of the degeneracy of the times; the second predicts the destruction that would ensue. Their drink is sour (margin, is gone): they have committed whoredom continually. If the first clause be taken literally,

(1) it denotes a charge of drunkenness preferred against Ephraim. To this vice the people of the northern kingdom, as is well known, were addicted: the wine, from oft-repeated potations, became sour in the stomach and produced loathsome eructations.

(2) Some, connecting closely the first and second clauses, and translating as in the margin, explain the meaning to be that "when their intoxication is gone they commit whoredom." But though drunkenness and debauchery frequently go together, it is rather during the former than afterwards that the latter is indulged in.

(3) The first clause had better be understood figuratively, and the latter either literally or figuratively, or both. Thus the sense is the degeneracy of principle among the people in general, or rather among the principal men of that day. By the finest wine becoming vapid, the prophet represents the leading men of the nation, on whom so much depended and from whom so much might be expected, as becoming unprincipled, and as being addicted to immorality or idolatry, or probably both (hazneh hiznu): "whoring they have committed whoredom." . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When their liquor
סָבְאָ֑ם (sā·ḇə·’ām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5435: A drink, liquor

is gone,
סָ֖ר (sār)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5493: To turn aside

they turn to prostitution;
הַזְנֵ֣ה (haz·nêh)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

their rulers
מָגִנֶּֽיהָ׃ (mā·ḡin·ne·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 4043: A shield, a protector, the scaly hide of the crocodile

dearly
הֵב֛וּ (hê·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 157: To have affection f

love
אָהֲב֥וּ (’ā·hă·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 157: To have affection f

disgrace.
קָל֖וֹן (qā·lō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7036: Disgrace, the pudenda


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