Hosea 7:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
"They delight the king with their wickedness, the princes with their lies.

New Living Translation
“The people entertain the king with their wickedness, and the princes laugh at their lies.

English Standard Version
By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.

Berean Study Bible
They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.

New American Standard Bible
With their wickedness they make the king happy, And the officials with their lies.

NASB 1995
With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies.

NASB 1977
With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies.

Amplified Bible
They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.

Christian Standard Bible
They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies.

Contemporary English Version
The king and his officials take great pleasure in their sin and deceit.

Good News Translation
The LORD says, "People deceive the king and his officers by their evil plots.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"They make kings happy with the wicked things they do. They make officials happy with the lies they tell.

International Standard Version
They please the king with their evil, and the princes with their dishonesty.

NET Bible
The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

New King James Version
They make a king glad with their wickedness, And princes with their lies.

King James 2000 Bible
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

New Heart English Bible
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

World English Bible
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

American King James Version
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

American Standard Version
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

A Faithful Version
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the rulers with their lies.

Darby Bible Translation
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

English Revised Version
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Webster's Bible Translation
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
They make the King glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lies.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
They make the kyng glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lyes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
They make the kinge and the princes, to haue pleasure in their wickednes & lyes.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
With their wickedness they make a king glad, "" And with their lies—princes.

Young's Literal Translation
With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.

Smith's Literal Translation
By their evil they will gladden the king, and the chiefs by their falsehoods.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The king has rejoiced at their wickedness, and the leaders have rejoiced in their lies.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
They gave joy to Kings and in their evil and in their unfaithfulness

Lamsa Bible
They have made the kings glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.
















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