Hosea 2:4 “I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the childr…”

Hosea 2:4

I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

World English Bible

Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness.

American Standard Version

Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;

Geneva Bible 1599

And I wil haue no pitie vpon her children: for they be the children of fornications.

Darby Translation

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.

Young's Literal Translation

And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms [are] they,

Bible in Basic English

And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

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Cross references

“I will not”

Hosea 1:6 Jeremiah 13:14 Jeremiah 16:5 Ezekiel 8:18 Ezekiel 9:10 James 2:13

Hosea 1:6 · BSB

Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.

Jeremiah 13:14 · BSB

I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”

Jeremiah 16:5 · BSB

Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares…

Ezekiel 8:18 · BSB

Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel 9:10 · BSB

But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”

James 2:13 · BSB

For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

“children of”

Hosea 1:2 2 Kings 9:22 Isaiah 57:3 John 8:41

Hosea 1:2 · BSB

When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”

2 Kings 9:22 · BSB

When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”

Isaiah 57:3 · BSB

“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

John 8:41 · BSB

You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

5For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’

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