Hosea 4:9
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
Hosea 4:9 in other translations
| BSB | And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds. |
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| WEB | It will be like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds. |
| ASV | And it shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings. |
| YLT | And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it. |
| DARBY | And it shall be as the people so the priest; and I will visit their ways upon them, and recompense to them their doings; |
| BBE | And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts. |
| Webster | And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. |
What does Hosea 4:9 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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…
Hosea 4:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Hosea 4:9
- Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
- Isaiah 24:2
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
- Matthew 15:14
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
- Hosea 1:4
And the Lord said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
- Jeremiah 23:11-12
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord. Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 8:10-12
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
- Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
- Isaiah 9:14-16
Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
- Hosea 8:13
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
- Isaiah 3:10
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
- Psalms 109:17-18
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
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- Hosea 4:8
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
- Hosea 4:9
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
- 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 4:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Tal será el pueblo como el sacerdote: y visitaré sobre él sus caminos, y pagaréle conforme á sus obras. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et comme le peuple, ainsi sera le sacrificateur. Et je visiterai sur eux leurs voies, et je leur rendrai leurs actions; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und so wird, wie das Volk, der Priester sein, und ich werde ihre Wege an ihnen heimsuchen und ihre Handlungen ihnen vergelten; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et erit sicut populus, sic sacerdos; et visitabo super eum vias ejus, et cogitationes ejus reddam ei. |