Top Verses from Hosea 4  

My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. "Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children." (NIV)

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that you shall be no priest to Me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. (AMP)

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (KJV)

You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother – (NIV)

And you shall stumble in the daytime, and the [false] prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother [the priestly nation]. [Exod. 19:6.] (AMP)

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. (KJV)

Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites, because the LORD has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: "There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land." (NIV)

HEAR THE word of the Lord, you children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy (a pleading contention) with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no faithfulness, love, pity and mercy, or knowledge of God [from personal experience with Him] in the land. (AMP)

Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. (KJV)

The more the priests increased, the more they sinned against me; they exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful. (NIV)

The more they increased and multiplied [in prosperity and power], the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame. (AMP)

As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. (KJV)

They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness. (NIV)

They feed on the sin of My people and set their heart on their iniquity. (AMP)

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. (KJV)

And it will be: Like people, like priests. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds. (NIV)

And it shall be: Like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their doings. (AMP)

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. (KJV)

To prostitution; old wine and new wine take away their understanding. (NIV)

Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart and the mind and the spiritual understanding. (AMP)

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. (KJV)

They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar and terebinth, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. (NIV)

They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and they burn incense upon the hills and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because there the shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot and your sons' wives commit adultery. (AMP)

They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. (KJV)

"They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution but not increase, because they have deserted the LORD to give themselves" (NIV)

For they shall eat and not have enough; they shall play the harlot and beget no increase, because they have forsaken the Lord for harlotry (AMP)

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. (KJV)

"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!" (NIV)

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for [the fathers and husbands] themselves go aside in order to be alone with women who prostitute themselves for gain, and they sacrifice at the altar with dedicated harlots [who surrender their chastity in honor of the goddess]. Therefore the people without understanding shall stumble and fall and come to ruin. (AMP)

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. (KJV)