Hosea 2:4

Christian Standard Bible ®

I will have no compassion on her childrenbecause they are the children of promiscuity.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; For they are children of unfaithfulness;

King James Version
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

English Standard Version
Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.

New American Standard Bible
"Also, I will take no pity on her children, Because they are children of infidelity.

New Century Version
I will not take pity on her children, because they are the children of a prostitute.

Amplified Bible
"Also, I will have no mercy on her children, Because they are the children of prostitution.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I wil haue no pitie vpon her children: for they be the children of fornications.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Also, I will have no compassion on her children, Because they are children of harlotry.

Legacy Standard Bible
Also, I will have no compassion on her childrenBecause they are children of harlotry.

Berean Standard Bible
I will have no compassion on her children because they are the children of adultery.

Contemporary English Version
You children are the result of her unfaithfulness, and I'll show you no pity.

Complete Jewish Bible
Rebuke your mother, rebuke her; for she isn't my wife, and I'm not her husband. She must remove her whoring from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.

Darby Translation
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.

Easy-to-Read Version
I will have no pity on her children because they are the children of prostitution.

George Lamsa Translation
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.

Good News Translation
I will not show mercy to her children; they are the children of a shameless prostitute. She herself said, "I will go to my lovers—they give me food and water, wool and linen, olive oil and wine."

Lexham English Bible
And I will not have pity on her children, because they are children of whoredom.

Literal Translation
And I will not have pity for her sons, for they are the sons of harlotries.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I shal haue no pite also vpon hir children, for they be the children of fornicacion.

American Standard Version
Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;

Bible in Basic English
And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not My wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

King James Version (1611)
And I will not haue mercy vpon her children, for they be the children of whordomes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I wyll haue no pitie vpon her chyldren: for they be the children of fornication.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.

English Revised Version
Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they be children of whoredom.

World English Bible
Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; For they are children of unfaithfulness;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal not haue merci on the sones of hir, for thei ben sones of fornicaciouns;

Update Bible Version
Yes, on her sons I will have no mercy; for they are sons of prostitution;

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [are] the children of lewdness.

New English Translation
I will have no pity on her children, because they are children conceived in adultery.

New King James Version
"I will not have mercy on her children, For they are the children of harlotry.

New Living Translation
And I will not love her children, for they were conceived in prostitution.

New Life Bible
I will have no loving-pity on her children, for they are children of her sinful ways.

New Revised Standard
Upon her children also I will have no pity, because they are children of whoredom.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, on her children, not have compassion, - because, the children of paramours, they are.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will not have mercy on her children. for they are the children of fornications.

Revised Standard Version
Upon her children also I will have no pity, because they are children of harlotry.

Young's Literal Translation
And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms [are] they,

Contextual Overview

¹Call your brothers: My People ²Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.For she is not my wife and I am not her husband.Let her remove the promiscuous look from her faceand her adultery from between her breasts. ³Otherwise, I will strip her nakedand expose her as she was on the day of her birth.I will make her like a desertand like a parched land,and I will let her die of thirst. ⁴I will have no compassion on her childrenbecause they are the children of promiscuity.⁵Yes, their mother is promiscuous;she conceived them and acted shamefully.For she thought, “I will follow my lovers,the men who give me my food and water,my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will not: Hosea 1:6, Isaiah 27:11, Jeremiah 13:14, Jeremiah 16:5, Ezekiel 8:18, Ezekiel 9:10, Zechariah 1:12, Romans 9:18, Romans 11:22, James 2:13

they be: They are all idolaters; and have been consecrated to idols, whose marks they bear.

children of: Hosea 1:2, 2 Kings 9:22, Isaiah 57:3, John 8:41

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 23:25 - they shall take thy

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”

Genesis 1:31
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.

Genesis 2:1
So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.

Genesis 2:2
On the seventh day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

Genesis 5:1
This is the document containing the family records of Adam. On the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God;

Genesis 10:1
These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.

Genesis 11:10
These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Genesis 25:12
These are the family records of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will not have mercy upon her children,.... The posterity of the Jews in succeeding ages, until the time of their conversion comes; they persisting in the sins of their forefathers, filling up the measure of their iniquities; remaining in their obstinate rejection of the Messiah, and in the same impenitence and unbelief, and having his blood imprecated upon them:

for they be the children of whoredoms; begotten and born in whoredom, spurious and illegitimate; or that commit whoredoms; imitate their parents; are guilty of the same vices; a generation of vipers. So the Targum,

"for they are children that commit idolatry;''

retain the traditions of the elders; go about to establish their own righteousness, and reject the Messiah.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will not have mercy upon her children - God visits the sins of the parents upon the children, until the entailed curse be cut off by repentance. God enforces His own word “lo-ruhamah, Unpitied,” by repeating it here, “lo-arahem,” “I will not pity.” Reproaches, which fall upon the mother, are ever felt with special keenness. Whence Saul called Jonathan 1 Samuel 20:30, “Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman.” Therefore, the more to arouse them, he says, “for they are the children of whoredoms,” evil children of an evil parent, as John the Immerser calls the hypocritical Jews, “ye generation of vipers” Matthew 3:7. “This they were, from their very birth and swaddling-clothes, never touching any work of piety, nor cultivating any grace.” As of Christ, and of those who, in Him, are nourished up in deeds of righteousness, it is said, “I was cast upon Thee from the womb; Thou art my God from my mother’s belly;” so, contrariwise, of the ungodly it is said, “The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.”

And as they who “live honestly, as in the day and in the light,” are called “children of the day and of the light,” so they who live a defiled life are called the “children of whoredores.” : “To call them ‘children of whoredoms’ is all one with saying, that they too are incorrigible or unchangeable. For of such, Wisdom, after saying, ‘executing Thy judgments upon them by little and little,’ added immediately (Wisd. 12:10, 11), ‘not being ignorant that thy were a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed, for it was a cursed seed from the beginning.” All this is here expressed briefly by this word, “that they are the children of whoredoms,” meaning that their “malice” too was inbred, and that they, as much as the Ammorite and Hittite, were a “cursed seed.” Nor yet, in so speaking, did he blame the nature which God created, but he vehemently reproves the abuse of nature, that malice, which cleaves to nature but was no part of it, was by custom changed into nature.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 2:4. They be the children of whoredoms. — They are all idolaters; and have been consecrated to idols, whose marks they bear.