Hosea 2:4
2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.
- KJV
- And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
- WEB
- Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness.
- ASV
- Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;
- DARBY
- And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.
- BLB
- And I will not show compassion [to] her children, for they [are] sons of prostitution.
- ÅB
- Og hennes barn vil jeg ikke miskunne meg over; for de er horebarn.
- OTB
- Jeg vil ikke vise medlidenhet med hennes barn, fordi de er barn av hor.
- B1930
- Og hennes barn vil jeg ikke miskunne mig over; for de er horebarn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Read in contextJames 2:13
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Read in contextHosea 1:2
The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
Read in contextJeremiah 13:14
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Read in contextHosea 1:6
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
Read in contextJeremiah 16:5
For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
Read in contextEzekiel 9:10
And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
Read in contextRomans 11:22
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
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