Hosea 4:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ A band of drunkards, they give themselves to harlotry; they love shame more than their glory.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Their drinking carousal over, they go habitually to play the harlot; [Ephraim's] rulers [continue to] love shame more than her glory [which is the Lord, Israel's God].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Though they have stopped drinking, they continue to behave like prostitutes; indeed, they “love”; shame is their pride.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Their feasting has been set aside; they have committed fornication after fornication. They love to bring disgrace to their protectors.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by fornication: they that should have protected them have loved to bring shame upon them.

Hosea 4:18 Cross References

Genesis 38:24

About three months later Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; and moreover she is with child by harlotry.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

Psalm 47:9

The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!

Exodus 23:8

And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?

Ezekiel 16:15

“But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by.

Hosea 4:10

They shall eat, but not be satisfied; they shall play the harlot, but not multiply; because they have forsaken the Lord to cherish harlotry.

Hosea 4:2

there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds and murder follows murder.

Hosea 9:10

Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree, in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Baal, and became detestable like the thing they loved.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.

Micah 3:11

Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.”

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

1 Samuel 8:3

Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.