Hosea 4:8
New International Version
They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness.

New Living Translation
“When the people bring their sin offerings, the priests get fed. So the priests are glad when the people sin!

English Standard Version
They feed on the sin of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

Berean Standard Bible
They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.

King James Bible
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

New King James Version
They eat up the sin of My people; They set their heart on their iniquity.

New American Standard Bible
They feed on the sin of My people, And long for their wrongdoing.

NASB 1995
They feed on the sin of My people And direct their desire toward their iniquity.

NASB 1977
They feed on the sin of My people, And direct their desire toward their iniquity.

Legacy Standard Bible
They eat the sin of My people And lift up their soul toward their iniquity.

Amplified Bible
They (the priests) feed on the sin offering of My people And set their heart on their wickedness.

Christian Standard Bible
They feed on the sin of my people; they have an appetite for their iniquity.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They feed on the sin of My people; they have an appetite for their transgressions.

American Standard Version
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They consumed the sin of my people and their souls have offered their evil

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their hearts on their iniquities.

Contemporary English Version
You encourage others to sin, so you can stuff yourselves on their sin offerings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.

English Revised Version
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They feed on the sins of my people, and they want them to do wicked things.

Good News Translation
You grow rich from the sins of my people, and so you want them to sin more and more.

International Standard Version
They feed on the sin of my people; they purpose in their heart to transgress.

JPS Tanakh 1917
They feed on the sin of My people, And set their heart on their iniquity.

Literal Standard Version
The sin of My people they eat, | And to their iniquity lift up their soul.

Majority Standard Bible
They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.

New American Bible
They feed on the sin of my people, and are greedy for their iniquity.

NET Bible
They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!

New Revised Standard Version
They feed on the sin of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

New Heart English Bible
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

Webster's Bible Translation
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

World English Bible
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

Young's Literal Translation
The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
God's Charges Against Israel
7The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace. 8They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity. 9And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.…

Cross References
Isaiah 56:11
Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:

Hosea 10:13
You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

Hosea 12:8
And Ephraim boasts: "How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful."

Hosea 14:1
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, "Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us."


Treasury of Scripture

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

eat.

Leviticus 6:26
The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Leviticus 7:6,7
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy…

set their heart on their iniquity.

1 Samuel 2:29
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

Psalm 24:4
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Psalm 25:1
A Psalm of David. Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

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Hosea 4
1. God denounces judgments on Israel, for their aggravated impieties and iniquities.
12. He exposes the ignorance and wickedness of the priests,
13. and moral dissolution of the people,
14. he will leave their wives and daughters to commit lewdness, without present punishment.
15. He warns Judah, not to imitate Israel's crimes, which are still further reproved.
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They feed on
יֹאכֵ֑לוּ (yō·ḵê·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

the sin
חַטַּ֥את (ḥaṭ·ṭaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender

of My people
עַמִּ֖י (‘am·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

and set
יִשְׂא֥וּ (yiś·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

their heart
נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃ (nap̄·šōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

on
וְאֶל־ (wə·’el-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

iniquity.
עֲוֺנָ֖ם (‘ă·wō·nām)
Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity


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