Hosea 4:11 “to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.”

Hosea 4:11

to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

World English Bible

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

American Standard Version

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.

Geneva Bible 1599

Whoredome, and wine, and newe wine take away their heart.

Darby Translation

Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.

Young's Literal Translation

Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

Bible in Basic English

Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

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Cross references

“take”

Proverbs 20:1 Luke 21:34 Isaiah 28:7 Hosea 4:12 Proverbs 6:32 Proverbs 23:27–35

Proverbs 20:1 · BSB

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Luke 21:34 · BSB

But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

Isaiah 28:7 · BSB

These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their jud…

Hosea 4:12 · BSB

My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

Proverbs 6:32 · BSB

He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 23:27–35 · BSB

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

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

In context

10They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have abandoned the LORD to give themselves

12My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

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