Revised Version 1895
Hosea 4:11
11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
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
9And it shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and will reward them their doings. 10And 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. Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding. 12My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters commit whoredom, and your brides commit adultery.
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זְנ֛וּת וְיַ֥יִן וְתִיר֖וֹשׁ יִֽקַּֽח־לֵֽב׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Hosea 4:11
- Hosea 4:12My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
- Proverbs 6:32He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he doeth it that would destroy his own soul.
- Proverbs 20:1Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
- Proverbs 23:27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- Ecclesiastes 7:7Surely extortion maketh a wise man foolish; and a gift destroyeth the understanding.
- Isaiah 5:12And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
- Isaiah 28:7But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are gone astray; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
- Luke 21:34But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:
- Romans 13:11And this, knowing the season, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us 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
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- 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
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