Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;
New American Standard Bible
Because they are
King James Version
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
Holman Bible
because they are the children of promiscuity.
International Standard Version
Furthermore, I'll not show pity on her children, since they are children of prostitution.
A Conservative Version
Yea, I will have no mercy upon her sons, for they are sons of whoredom,
Amplified
“Also, I will have no mercy on her children,
Because they are the children of prostitution.
Bible in Basic English
And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.
Darby Translation
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.
Julia Smith Translation
And her sons I will not compassionate, for they are the sons of fornications
King James 2000
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of harlotry.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And I will not have pity on her children, because [they are] children of whoredom.
Modern King James verseion
And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of adulteries.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I shall have no pity also upon her children, for they be the children of fornication.
NET Bible
I will have no pity on her children, because they are children conceived in adultery.
New Heart English Bible
Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;
The Emphasized Bible
And, on her children, not have compassion, - because, the children of paramours, they are.
Webster
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of lewdness.
World English Bible
Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;
Youngs Literal Translation
And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms are they,
Interlinear
Racham
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 2:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Adultery Rebuked
3 lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4 Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom; 5 for their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 13:14
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.
Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore will I also deal in wrath; mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Hosea 1:2
When Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah.
Hosea 1:6
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And Jehovah'said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them.
2 Kings 9:22
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
Isaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
Isaiah 57:3
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
Jeremiah 16:5
For thus saith Jehovah, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, even lovingkindness and tender mercies.
Ezekiel 9:10
And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.
Zechariah 1:12
Then the angel of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
John 8:41
Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Romans 9:18
So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardeneth.
Romans 11:22
Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God's goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.