Hosea 4:8
Modern Translations
New International Version
They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness.

New Living Translation
“When the people bring their sin offerings, the priests get fed. So the priests are glad when the people sin!

English Standard Version
They feed on the sin of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

Berean Study Bible
They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.

New American Standard Bible
They feed on the sin of My people, And long for their wrongdoing.

NASB 1995
They feed on the sin of My people And direct their desire toward their iniquity.

NASB 1977
They feed on the sin of My people, And direct their desire toward their iniquity.

Amplified Bible
They (the priests) feed on the sin offering of My people And set their heart on their wickedness.

Christian Standard Bible
They feed on the sin of my people; they have an appetite for their iniquity.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They feed on the sin of My people; they have an appetite for their transgressions.

Contemporary English Version
You encourage others to sin, so you can stuff yourselves on their sin offerings.

Good News Translation
You grow rich from the sins of my people, and so you want them to sin more and more.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They feed on the sins of my people, and they want them to do wicked things.

International Standard Version
They feed on the sin of my people; they purpose in their heart to transgress.

NET Bible
They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

New King James Version
They eat up the sin of My people; They set their heart on their iniquity.

King James 2000 Bible
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

New Heart English Bible
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

World English Bible
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

American King James Version
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

American Standard Version
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

A Faithful Version
They eat up the sin of My people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

Darby Bible Translation
They eat the sin of my people, and their soul longeth for their iniquity.

English Revised Version
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

Webster's Bible Translation
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
They eate vp the sinnes of my people, and lift vp their mindes in their iniquitie.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
They eate vp the sinnes of my people, and encourage them in their wickednesse.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
They eate vp the synnes of my people, & corage them in their wickednesse.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The sin of My people they eat, "" And to their iniquity lift up their soul.

Young's Literal Translation
The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.

Smith's Literal Translation
They will eat up the sin of my people, and they will lift up their soul to their iniquity.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.

Catholic Public Domain Version
They will devour the sins of my people, and they will lift up their souls towards their iniquity.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
They consumed the sin of my people and their souls have offered their evil

Lamsa Bible
They devoured my people unmercifully, and they have engulfed themselves in their iniquity.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
They feed on the sin of My people, And set their heart on their iniquity.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their hearts on their iniquities.
















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