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Hosea 4:11
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Promiscuity, wine, and new winetake away one’s understanding.
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.
Infidelity, wine, and new wine take away the understanding.
prostitution, to old and new wine, which take away their ability to understand.
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away the mind and the [spiritual] understanding.
Whoredome, and wine, and newe wine take away their heart.
Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away a heart of wisdom.
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
and have been unfaithful to me, their Lord . My people, you are foolish because of too much pleasure and too much wine.
Whoring and wine, both old and new, take away my people's wits.
Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.
"Sexual sins, strong drink, and new wine ruin a person's ability to think straight.
And they love whoredom, and wine and drunkenness take away their heart.
The Lord says, "Wine, both old and new, is robbing my people of their senses!
whoredom. Wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Fornication and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the heart.
Whoredome, and wine, and newe wine take away the heart.
Whordome, wine, and newe wine, take the heart away.
The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
Fornycacioun, and wiyn, and drunkenesse doen awei the herte.
Prostitution and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Lewdness and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.
"Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.
to worship other gods. "Wine has robbed my people of their understanding.
"Their sinful ways and both old and new wine take away My people's understanding.
whoredom. Wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Unchastity, and wine, and new wine, take away the heart.
Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.
Wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,
Whordome, wyne and dronckennesse take the herte awaye.
"Wine and whiskey leave my people in a stupor. They ask questions of a dead tree, expect answers from a sturdy walking stick. Drunk on sex, they can't find their way home. They've replaced their God with their genitals. They worship on the tops of mountains, make a picnic out of religion. Under the oaks and elms on the hills they stretch out and take it easy. Before you know it, your daughters are whores and the wives of your sons are sleeping around. But I'm not going after your whoring daughters or the adulterous wives of your sons. It's the men who pick up the whores that I'm after, the men who worship at the holy whorehouses— a stupid people, ruined by whores!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
take: Hosea 4:12, Proverbs 6:32, Proverbs 20:1, Proverbs 23:27-35, Ecclesiastes 7:7, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 28:7, Luke 21:34, Romans 13:11-14
Reciprocal: Genesis 38:18 - gave it her 1 Kings 11:8 - all his strange wives 1 Kings 11:9 - his heart 1 Kings 20:16 - Benhadad Proverbs 5:14 - General Proverbs 5:22 - His Proverbs 17:16 - seeing Proverbs 23:28 - increaseth Proverbs 31:3 - strength Proverbs 31:4 - General Isaiah 28:1 - drunkards Isaiah 56:12 - I will Isaiah 57:5 - Enflaming Hosea 2:8 - wine Hosea 3:1 - love flagons Hosea 6:10 - there Hosea 7:11 - without Amos 2:6 - For three
Cross-References
And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:
You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.
And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death.
And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
And Lamech had two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle.
And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all players on instruments of music.
And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.
O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!
For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Whoredom and wine, and new wine, take away the heart. Uncleanness and intemperance besot men, deprive them of reason and judgment, and even of common sense, make them downright fools, and so stupid as to do the following things; or they take away the heart from following the Lord, and taking heed to him, and lead to idolatry; or they "occupy" z the heart, and fill it up, and cause it to prefer sensual lusts and pleasures to the fear and love of God: their stupidity brought on hereby is exposed in the next verse; though it seems chiefly to respect the priests, who erred in vision through wine and strong drink, and stumbled in judgment, Isaiah 28:7.
z יקח לב "occupant cor", so some in Calvin and Rivet; "occupavit cor", Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Whoredom 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 understanding, and the understanding, bereft of true affections, and under the rule of passion, becomes senseless. Besides the perversion of the understanding, each of these sins blunts and dulls the fineness of the intellect; much more, both combined. The stupid sottishness of the confirmed voluptuary is a whole, of which each act of sensual sin worked its part. The Pagan saw this clearly, although, without the grace of God, they did not act on what they saw to be true and right. This, the sottishness of Israel, destroying their understanding, was the ground of their next folly, that they ascribed to “their stock” the office of God. “Corruption of manners and superstition” (it has often been observed) “go hand in hand.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 4:11. Whoredom and wine — These debaucheries go generally together.
Take away the heart. — Darken the understanding, deprave the judgment, pervert the will, debase all the passions, &c.
