It happened about three months later, that it was told Yehudah, saying, *Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.* Yehudah said, *Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.*
Hosea 4:18 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame. Common English Bible Though they have stopped drinking, they continue to behave like prostitutes; indeed, they “love”; shame is their pride. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by fornication: they that should have protected them have loved to bring shame upon them. |
It happened about three months later, that it was told Yehudah, saying, *Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.* Yehudah said, *Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.*
The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Avraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted!
*You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was.
They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to the LORD.
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
I found Yisra'el like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Ba`al-Pe`or, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her Kohanim teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on the LORD, and say, *Isn't the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.*
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.