Hosea 4:10

Hosea 4:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)“They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution but not flourish, because they have deserted the Lord to give themselves
• English Standard Version (ESV)They shall eat, but not be satisfied; they shall play the whore, but not multiply, because they have forsaken the Lord to cherish
• New King James Version (NKJV)For they shall eat, but not have enough; They shall commit harlotry, but not increase; Because they have ceased obeying the Lord.

Context of Hosea 4:10

8They feed on the sin of My people, And long for their wrongdoing. 9And it will be, like people, like priest; So I will punish them for their ways And repay them for their deeds. They will eat, but not have enough; They will play the prostitute, but not increase, Because they gave up devoting themselves to the Lord. 11Infidelity, wine, and new wine take away the understanding. 12My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them; For a spirit of infidelity has led them astray, And they have been unfaithful, departing from their God.

Hosea 4:10 word by word

וְאָֽכְלוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א יִשְׂבָּ֔עוּ הִזְנ֖וּ וְלֹ֣א יִפְרֹ֑צוּ כִּֽי־אֶת־יְהוָ֥ה עָזְב֖וּ לִשְׁמֹֽר׃Read the interlinear

• They will eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• but not haveשָׂבֵעַώâba‛ ώâbêa‛ · to satisfyH7646
• playזָנָהzânâh · to fornicateH2181
• increaseפָּרַץpârats · to break throughH6555
• Becauseכִּיkîy · forH3588
• gaveעָזַב‛âzab · to leave: forsakeH5800
• devotingשָׁמַרshâmar · to keep: look atH8104
• themselves to the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Hosea 4:10

• Leviticus 26:26When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.
• Proverbs 13:25The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, But the stomach of the wicked is in need.
• Isaiah 65:13Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “Behold, My servants will eat, but you will be hungry. Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
• Micah 6:14You will eat, but you will not be satisfied, And your filth will be in your midst. You will try to remove valuables for safekeeping, But you will not save it all, And what you do save I will turn over to the sword.
• Haggai 1:6You have sown much, only to harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but there is not enough for anyone to get warm; and the one who earns, earns wages to put into a money bag full of holes.”
• Malachi 2:1“And now, this commandment is for you, the priests.
• Hosea 4:14I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, Or your brides when they commit adultery, Because the men themselves slip away with the prostitutes And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes; So the people without understanding are ruined.
• Hosea 9:11As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird-- No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
• 2 Chronicles 24:17But after the death of Jehoiada the officials of Judah came and bowed down to the king, and the king listened to them.
• Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
• Psalms 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, The Lord will lead them away with those who practice injustice. Peace be upon Israel.
• Jeremiah 34:15Although recently you had turned and done what is right in My sight, each one proclaiming release to his neighbor, and you had made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.
• Ezekiel 18:24“But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness, commits injustice and does according to all the abominations that the wicked person does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.
• Zephaniah 1:6And those who have turned back from following the Lord, And those who have not sought the Lord nor inquired of Him.”
• 2 Peter 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

Commentaries on Hosea 4:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10They shall eat, and not have enough - Whatever means they may use to satisfy or gratify themselves shall be ineffectual.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10For they shall eat, and not have enough - This is almost a proverbial saying of Holy Scripture, and, as such, has manifold applications. In the way of nature, it comes true in those, who, under God‘s affictive Hand in famine or siege, “eat” what they have, but have “not enough,” and perish with hunger. It comes true in those, who, through bodily disease, are not nourished by their food. Yet not less true is it of those who, through their own insatiate…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-11Verses 6-11 Both priests and people rejected knowledge; God will justly reject them. They forgot the law of God, neither desired nor endeavoured to retain it in mind, and to transmit the remembrance to their posterity; therefore God will justly forget them and their children. If we dishonour God with that which is our honour, it will, sooner or later, be turned into shame to us. Instead of warning the people against sin, from the consideration of the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10God's judgment fits the punishment to the crime. The Israelites worshiped Canaanite fertility gods, hoping for abundant crops and herds. However, God's judgment was that they would remain hungry, and their religious practices would bring them no benefits.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. eat, and not have enough--just retribution on those who "eat up (greedily) the sin of My people" (Ho 4:8; Mi 6:14; Hag 1:6). whoredom, and ... not increase--literally, "break forth"; used of giving birth to children (Ge 28:14, Margin; compare Ge 38:29). Not only their wives, but their concubines, shall be barren. To be childless was considered a great calamity among the Jews.Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• Languish
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• Hosea
• Zechariah, Book of

Commentaries on Hosea 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings