Hosea 4:14

Hosea 4:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
• New International Version (NIV)“I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes— a people without understanding will come to ruin!
• English Standard Version (ESV)I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, Nor your brides when they commit adultery; For the men themselves go apart with harlots, And offer sacrifices with a ritual harlot. Therefore people who do not understand will be trampled.

Context of Hosea 4:14

12My people consult their wooden idol and their divining rod informs them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have been a prostitute— out from under their God. 13They sacrifice on the mountaintops and on the high places they burn incense under oak poplar, and terebinth— for its shade is good. Therefore your daughters are prostitutes and your daughters-in-law commit adultery. Will I not punish your daughters for prostitution or your daughters-in-law for adultery? For they consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes. A people without understanding will be thrust down. 15Though you, Israel, are a prostitute, let Judah not become guilty. But do not come to Gilgal or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear: ‘As Adonai lives!’ 16For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn cow. Now Adonai will pasture them like a lamb in the open field.

Hosea 4:14 word by word

לֹֽא־אֶפְק֨וֹד עַל־בְּנוֹתֵיכֶ֜ם כִּ֣י תִזְנֶ֗ינָה וְעַל־כַּלּֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ כִּ֣י תְנָאַ֔פְנָה כִּי־הֵם֙ עִם־הַזֹּנ֣וֹת יְפָרֵ֔דוּ וְעִם־הַקְּדֵשׁ֖וֹת יְזַבֵּ֑חוּ וְעָ֥ם לֹֽא־יָבִ֖ין יִלָּבֵֽט׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I will not punishפָּקַדpâqad · to reckon: punishH6485
• your daughtersבַּתbath · daughterH1323
• when they commit whoredomזָנָהzânâh · to fornicateH2181
• nor your spousesכַּלָּהkallâh · daughter-in-law: brideH3618
• when they commit adulteryנָאַףnâ'aph · to commit adulteryH5003
• for themselves are separatedפָּרַדpârad · to separateH6504
• and they sacrificeזָבַחzâbach · to sacrificeH2076
• with harlotsקְדֵשָׁהqedêshâh · cult prostituteH6948
• therefore the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• doth not understandבִּיןbîyn · to understandH995
• shall fallלָבַטlâbaţ · to ruinH3832

Cross-references for Hosea 4:14

• Hosea 4:17Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone!
• Isaiah 1:5Where will you be struck again, as you stray away more and more? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.
• Hebrews 12:8But if you are without discipline—something all have come to share—then you are illegitimate and not sons.
• 1 Corinthians 6:16Or don’t you know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, “The two shall become one flesh.”
• 1 Kings 14:23They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree;
• 1 Kings 15:12He also expelled the male prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
• 2 Kings 23:7Then he tore down the quarters of the male cult prostitutes that had been in the House of Adonai, where the women had been weaving coverings for the Asherah.
• Hosea 4:1Hear the word of Adonai, Bnei-Yisrael! For Adonai has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, no covenant loyalty, and no knowledge of God in the land.
• Hosea 14:9Ephraim: “What more are idols to me? I have responded and observed Him. I will be like a luxuriant cypress tree. From me will be found Your fruit.”
• Proverbs 28:5Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek Adonai understand it fully.
• Isaiah 44:18They do not know or understand! For He smeared over their eyes, so they cannot see, and their hearts, so they cannot understand.
• Isaiah 56:11and the dogs are greedy— they never have enough. They are shepherds with no discernment. They have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.
• Daniel 12:10Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.
• John 8:43Why don’t you understand My speech? Because you’re not able to hear My word!
• Romans 3:11There is no one who understands, no one who seeks after God.
• Ephesians 4:18They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance in them due to the hardness of their heart.

Commentaries on Hosea 4:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14I will not punish - Why should you be stricken any more; ye will revolt more and more. When God, in judgment, removes his judgments, the case of that people is desperate. While there is hope, there is correction. Themselves are separated - There is a reference here to certain debaucheries which should not be described. The state of the people at this time must have been abominable beyond all precedent; animal, sensual, bestial, diabolical: women…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14I will not punish your daughters - God threatens, as the severest woe, that He will not punish their sins with the correction of a Father in this present life, but will leave the sinners, unheeded, to follow all iniquity. It is the last punishment of persevering stoners, that God leaves them to prosper in their sins and in those things which help them to sin. Hence, we are taught to pray, “O Lord, correct me, but in judgment, not in Thine anger” Jeremiah…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-19Verses 12-19 The people consulted images, and not the Divine word. This would lead to disorder and sin. Thus men prepare scourges for themselves, and vice is spread through a people. Let not Judah come near the idolatrous worship of Israel. For Israel was devoted to idols, and must now be let alone. When sinners cast off the easy yoke of Christ, they go on in sin till the Lord saith, Let them alone. Then they receive no more warnings, feel no more…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14God stated that he would not target young women for their prostitution. This statement contrasts with the double standards common in ancient cultures. prostitutes: The Hebrew word refers to female prostitutes dedicated to serving Baal and Asherah in Baal's temples (Deuteronomy 23:18).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. I will not punish ... daughters--I will visit with the heaviest punishments "not" the unchaste "daughters and spouses," but the fathers and husbands; for it is these who "themselves" have set the bad example, so that as compared with the punishment of the latter, that of the former shall seem as nothing [Munster]. separated with whores--withdrawn from the assembly of worshippers to some receptacle of impurity for carnal connection with whores…Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 4:14

• Blindness
• Idolatry
• Sodomites
• Women

In the dictionaries

• Harlot
• Jeroboam
• Languish
• Reject
• Spouse
• Crime; Crimes
• High Place
• Hosea
• Law in the Old Testament
• Salvation

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