However, after Jehoiada died, the rulers of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them,
Hosea 4:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have abandoned their devotion to the Lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For they shall eat and not have enough; they shall play the harlot and beget no increase, because they have forsaken the Lord for harlotry; American Standard Version (1901) And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking heed to Jehovah. Common English Bible They will eat but not be satisfied; they will have sex like prostitutes, but they will not have children, because they have rejected the LORD to devote themselves to Catholic Public Domain Version And they will eat and not be satisfied. They have been committing fornication, and they did not cease. Since they have abandoned the Lord, they will not be safeguarded. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in not observing his law. |
However, after Jehoiada died, the rulers of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them,
A righteous person eats until he is satisfied, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.
Today you repented and did what pleased me, each of you proclaiming freedom for his neighbour. You made a covenant before me at the house that bears my name.
Who is the person wise enough to understand this? Who has the Lord spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through?
But when a righteous person turns from his righteousness and acts unjustly, committing the same detestable acts that the wicked do, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. He will die because of the treachery he has engaged in and the sin he has committed.
There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood. People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines; they commit depraved acts within you.
I will not punish your daughters when they act promiscuously or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go off with prostitutes and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes. People without discernment are doomed.
All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
You will eat but not be satisfied, for there will be hunger within you. What you acquire, you cannot save, and what you do save, I will give to the sword.
and those who turn back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or enquire of him.
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be happy. You put on clothes but never have enough to get warm. The wage earner puts his wages into a bag with a hole in it.’