Hosea 4:11

Hosea 4:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
• New International Version (NIV)to prostitution; old wine and new wine take away their understanding.
• English Standard Version (ESV)whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.

Context of Hosea 4:11

9‘And what the priests do, the people also do.’ So now I will punish both priests and people for their wicked deeds. 10They will eat and still be hungry. They will play the prostitute and gain nothing from it, for they have deserted the Lord to worship other gods. “Wine has robbed my people of their understanding. 12They ask a piece of wood for advice! They think a stick can tell them the future! Longing after idols has made them foolish. They have played the prostitute, serving other gods and deserting their God. 13They offer sacrifices to idols on the mountaintops. They go up into the hills to burn incense in the pleasant shade of oaks, poplars, and terebinth trees. “That is why your daughters turn to prostitution, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

Hosea 4:11 word by word

זְנ֛וּת וְיַ֥יִן וְתִיר֖וֹשׁ יִֽקַּֽח־לֵֽב׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Whoredomזְנוּתzenûth · fornicationH2184
• and wineיַ֫יִןyayin · wineH3196
• and new wineתִּירוֹשׁtîyrôsh tîyrôsh · new wineH8492
• take awayלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• the heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820

Cross-references for Hosea 4:11

• Hosea 4:12They ask a piece of wood for advice! They think a stick can tell them the future! Longing after idols has made them foolish. They have played the prostitute, serving other gods and deserting their God.
• Proverbs 6:32But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys himself.
• Proverbs 20:1Wine produces mockers; alcohol leads to brawls. Those led astray by drink cannot be wise.
• Proverbs 23:27A prostitute is a dangerous trap; a promiscuous woman is as dangerous as falling into a narrow well.
• Ecclesiastes 7:7Extortion turns wise people into fools, and bribes corrupt the heart.
• Isaiah 5:12They furnish wine and lovely music at their grand parties— lyre and harp, tambourine and flute— but they never think about the Lord or notice what he is doing.
• Isaiah 28:7Now, however, Israel is led by drunks who reel with wine and stagger with alcohol. The priests and prophets stagger with alcohol and lose themselves in wine. They reel when they see visions and stagger as they render decisions.
• Luke 21:34“Watch out! Don’t let your hearts be dulled by carousing and drunkenness, and by the worries of this life. Don’t let that day catch you unaware,
• Romans 13:11This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

Commentaries on Hosea 4:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Whoredom and wine - These debaucheries go generally together. Take away the heart - Darken the understanding, deprave the judgment, pervert the will, debase all the passions, etc.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart - (Literally, “takes away”). Wine and fleshly sin are pictured as blended in one, to deprive man of his affections and reason and understanding, and to leave him brutish and irrational. In all the relations of life toward God and man, reason and will are guided by the affections. And so, in God‘s language, the “heart” stands for the “understanding” as well as the “affections,” because it directs the…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
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. A moral truth applicable to all times. The special reference here is to the licentious orgies connected with the Syrian worship, which lured Israel away from the pure worship of God (Is 28:1, 7; Am 4:1). take away the heart--that is, the understanding; make men blind to their own true good (Ec 7:7).Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 4:11

• Adultery
• Drunkenness
• Minister, Christian
• Sin
• Wine

In the dictionaries

• Languish
• Reject
• Wine
• Crime; Crimes
• Drunkenness
• Hosea
• Text of the Old Testament
• Wine; Wine Press
• Zechariah, Book of
• God

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