Hosea 4:19

New Century Version

They will be swept away as if by a whirlwind, and their sacrifices will bring them only shame.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A wind with its wings will carry them off,and they will be ashamed of their sacrifices.

Hebrew Names Version
The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; And they shall be put to shame because of their sacrifices.

King James Version
The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

English Standard Version
A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

New American Standard Bible
The wind wraps them in its wings, And they will be put to shame because of their sacrifices.

Amplified Bible
The wind [of God's relentless wrath] has wrapped up Israel in its wings, And [in captivity] they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices [to calves, to sun, to moon, to stars, and to pagan gods].

Geneva Bible (1587)
The winde hath bounde them vp in her wings, and they shalbe ashamed of their sacrifices.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The wind wraps them in its wings, And they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Legacy Standard Bible
The wind binds them up in its wings,And they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Berean Standard Bible
The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings and their sacrifices will bring them shame.

Contemporary English Version
And so you will be swept away in a whirlwind for sacrificing to idols.

Complete Jewish Bible
The wind will carry them off in its wings and their sacrifices bring them nothing but shame.

Darby Translation
The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Easy-to-Read Version
They went to those gods for safety, and they have lost their ability to think. Their altars will bring them shame.

George Lamsa Translation
Let the wind rend asunder their robes; let them be ashamed of their altars.

Good News Translation
They will be carried away as by the wind, and they will be ashamed of their pagan sacrifices.

Lexham English Bible
A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they will be ashamed because of their altars.

Literal Translation
The wind binds her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

American Standard Version
The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be put to shame because of their sacrifices.

Bible in Basic English
They are folded in the skirts of the wind; they will be shamed because of their offerings.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The wind hath bound her up in her skirts; and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

King James Version (1611)
The wind hath bound her vp in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The winde hath bounde them vp in her winges, and they shall be ashamed of their sacrifices.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou art a blast of wind in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

English Revised Version
The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

World English Bible
The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; And they shall be put to shame because of their sacrifices.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The spirit boond hym in hise wyngis, and thei schulen be schent of her sacrifices.

Update Bible Version
The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be put to shame because of their altars.

Webster's Bible Translation
The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

New English Translation
A whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings; they will be brought to shame because of their idolatrous worship.

New King James Version
The wind has wrapped her up in its wings, And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

New Living Translation
So a mighty wind will sweep them away. Their sacrifices to idols will bring them shame.

New Life Bible
The wind will carry them away, and they will be ashamed because they gave gifts to false gods.

New Revised Standard
A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The wind hath bound her up in its wings, - that they may be ashamed, because of their sacrifices.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall be confounded because of their sacrifices.

Revised Standard Version
A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

Young's Literal Translation
Distressed her hath wind with its wings, And they are ashamed of their sacrifices!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A wynde shall take holde of their fethers, & they shall be cofounded in their offeringes.

Contextual Overview

¹² "My people ask wooden idols for advice; they ask those sticks of wood to advise them! Like prostitutes, they have chased after other gods and have left their own God. ¹³ They make sacrifices on the tops of the mountains. They burn offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and other trees, because their shade is nice. So your daughters become prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law are guilty of adultery. ¹⁴ "But I will not punish your daughters for becoming prostitutes, nor your daughters-in-law for their sins of adultery. I will not punish them, because the men have sexual relations with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with the temple prostitutes. A foolish people will be ruined. ¹⁵ "Israel, you act like a prostitute, but do not be guilty toward the Lord . Don't go to Gilgal or go up to Beth Aven. Don't make promises, saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives...' ¹⁶ The people of Israel are stubborn like a stubborn young cow. Now the Lord will feed them like lambs in the open country. ¹⁷ The Israelites have chosen to worship idols, so leave them alone. ¹⁸ When they finish their drinking, they completely give themselves to being prostitutes; they love these disgraceful ways. ¹⁹ They will be swept away as if by a whirlwind, and their sacrifices will bring them only shame.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wind: Jeremiah 4:11, Jeremiah 4:12, Jeremiah 51:1, Zechariah 5:9-11

and: Hosea 10:6, Isaiah 1:29, Isaiah 42:17, Jeremiah 2:26, Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 2:36, Jeremiah 2:37, Jeremiah 3:24, Jeremiah 3:25, Jeremiah 17:13

Reciprocal: Job 30:22 - liftest me Isaiah 64:6 - our iniquities Jeremiah 22:22 - wind Hosea 13:15 - an east

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."

Genesis 2:24
So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one body.

Genesis 4:4
Abel brought the best parts from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord accepted Abel and his gift,

Genesis 4:6
The Lord asked Cain, "Why are you angry? Why do you look so unhappy?

Matthew 19:8
Jesus answered, "Moses allowed you to divorce your wives because you refused to accept God's teaching, but divorce was not allowed in the beginning.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The wind hath bound her up in her wings,.... That is, the wind in its wings hath bound up Ephraim, Israel, or the ten tribes, compared to a heifer; meaning, that the wind of God's wrath and vengeance, or the enemy, the Assyrian, should come like a whirlwind, and carry them swiftly, suddenly, and irresistibly, out of their own land, into a foreign country: the past tense for the future, as is common in prophecy, because of the certainty of it; so Jarchi and Joseph Kimchi: but Aben Ezra, David Kimchi, Abarbinel, and Abendana, render it "she", that is, Israel, "hath bound up the wind in her wings" b; meaning that they had laboured in vain in their idolatrous worship; and it was all one as if a than should attempt to gather the wind, and bind it up in the skirts of his garment, and when he opens them there is nothing to be found: and to this sense is the Targum,

"the works of their great men are not right, as it is impossible to bind the wind in a wing;''

referring to the sins of their rulers, as before: or rather the sense is, the wind shall get into the loose skirts of the garments of, he Israelites, which shall be as a sail to it, as Schmidt observes, and shall carry them into distant lands; which falls in with the first sense of the words, and is best:

and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices: they of the ten tribes, the people of Israel; or their shields, their rulers, as Aben Ezra, shall be filled with shame, being disappointed of the help they expected from their idols, to whom they offered sacrifices; and the more, inasmuch as they will find that these idolatrous sacrifices are the cause of their ruin and destruction. The Targum is,

"because of the altars of their idols;''

and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, "because of their altars".

b צרר רוח אותה בכנפיה "ligavit illa ventum in alis suis", Munster, Calvin, Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The wind hath bound her up in her wings - When God brought Israel out of Egypt, He “bare them on eagle’s wings, and brought them unto Himself” Exodus 19:4; Deuteronomy 32:11. Now they had abandoned God, and God abandoned them as chaff to the wind. The certainty of Israel’s doom is denoted by its being spoken of in the past. It was certain in the divine judgment. Sudden, resistless, irreversible are God’s judgments, when they come. As if “imprisoned in the viewless winds,” and “borne with resistless violence,” as it were on the wings of the whirlwind, Israel should be hurried by the mighty wrath of God into captivity in a distant land, bound up so that none should escape, but, when arrived there, dispersed here and there, as the chaff before the wind.

And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices - They had sacrificed to the calves, to Baal, or to the sun, moon, stars, hoping aid from them rather than from God. When then they should see, in deed, that from those their sacrifices no good came to them, but evil only, they should be healthfully ashamed. So, in fact, in her captivity, did Israel learn to be ashamed of her idols; and so does GOd by healthful disappointment, make us ashamed of seeking out of Him, the good things, which He alone hath, and hath in store for them who love Him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 4:19. The wind hath bound her — A parching wind has blasted them in their wings - coasts, borders; or they are carried away into captivity, as with the most rapid blight. These two last verses are very obscure.