Hosea 4 · Verse 11

Hosea 4:11

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Hosea 4:11, King James Version

Hosea 4:11 in other translations

BSBPromiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
WEBProstitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
ASVWhoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
YLTWhoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,
DARBYFornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.
BBELoose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
WebsterLewdness and wine and new wine take away the heart.

What does Hosea 4:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
11. A moral truth applicable to all times. The special reference here is to the licentious orgies connected with the Syrian worship, which lured Israel away from the pure worship of God (Is 28:1, 7; Am 4:1). take away the heart--that is, the understanding; make men blind to their own true good (Ec 7:7).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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, etc.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 4:6-11

Both priests and people rejected knowledge; God will justly reject them. They forgot the law of God, neither desired nor endeavoured to retain it in mind, and to transmit the remembrance to their posterity; therefore God will justly forget them and their children. If we dishonour God with that which is our honour, it will, sooner or later, be turned into shame to us. Instead of warning the people against sin, from…

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Hosea 4:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

זְנ֛וּתze.NutprostitutionH2184
וְיַ֥יִןve.Ya.yinand wineH3196
וְתִיר֖וֹשׁve.ti.Ro.oshand new wineH8492
יִֽקַּֽח\־yi.kach-it takes awayH3947
לֵֽב\׃Lev[the] heartH3820

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Hosea 4:11

  • Proverbs 20:1

    Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

  • Luke 21:34

    And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

  • Isaiah 28:7

    But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • Proverbs 6:32

    But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

  • Ecclesiastes 7:7

    Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

  • Proverbs 23:27-35

    For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. …

  • Isaiah 5:12

    And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

  • Hosea 4:12

    My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

  • Romans 13:11-14

    And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
take.
12; Pr 6:32; 20:1; 23:27-35; Ec 7:7; Isa 5:12; 28:7; Lu 21:34
Ro 13:11-14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Hosea 4:10

    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.

  • Hosea 4:11

    Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

  • Hosea 4:12

    My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

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Hosea 4:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Fornicación, y vino, y mosto quitan el corazón.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		La fornication, et le vin, et le moût, ôtent le sens.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Hurerei, Wein und Most nehmen den Verstand weg.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Fornicatio, et vinum, et ebrietas auferunt cor.