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.”
Hosea 4:18 - Revised Standard Version A band of drunkards, they give themselves to harlotry; they love shame more than their glory. 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. |
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.”
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!
And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
“But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by.
They shall eat, but not be satisfied; they shall play the harlot, but not multiply; because they have forsaken the Lord to cherish harlotry.
there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds and murder follows murder.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.