Hosea 4:18 - Modern King James Version

¹⁸ Their drink is sour; they are continually fornicating; her rulers dearly love shame.

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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.

Hosea 4:18 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 38:24

And it happened, about three months afterward, that it was told Judah, saying, Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the harlot, and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burned.

Psalm 47:9

The rulers of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth are God's; He is lifted up on high.

Exodus 23:8

And you shall take no bribe, for the bribe blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you a noble vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me?

Ezekiel 16:15

But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your name, and poured out your fornications on all who passed by; it was his.

Hosea 4:10

For they shall eat and not have enough. They shall fornicate and not increase, because they have stopped taking heed to Jehovah.

Hosea 4:2

There is lying, and swearing, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery; and blood touches blood.

Hosea 9:10

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first-fruit in the fig tree at her first time. But they went to Baal-peor and set themselves apart to a shameful thing; and they became abominable like that which they loved.

Amos 5:12

For I know your many transgressions and your many sins. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate.

Micah 3:11

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come on us!

Micah 7:3

Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not respect persons, nor take a gift. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after ill gain and took bribes and perverted judgment.