Hosea 7:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Common English Bible

³ By their wickedness they make the king glad, and give joy to the officials with their lies.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ The king has rejoiced at their wickedness, and the leaders have rejoiced in their lies.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.

Hosea 7:3 Cross References

1 Kings 22:13

And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king; let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”

1 Kings 22:6

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I forbear?” And they said, “Go up; for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”

Jeremiah 37:19

Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Jeremiah 9:2

O that I had in the desert a wayfarers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.

Hosea 10:13

You have plowed iniquity, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your chariots and in the multitude of your warriors,

Hosea 11:12

Ephraim has encompassed me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah is still known by God, and is faithful to the Holy One.

Hosea 4:2

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

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after vanity.

Hosea 7:5

On the day of our king the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.

Micah 6:16

For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels; that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of the peoples.”

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.

Romans 1:32

Though they know God's decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them.

1 John 4:5

They are of the world, therefore what they say is of the world, and the world listens to them.