Hosea 4:7 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 4:7

As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

▾

ASV

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.

WEB

The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.

YLT

According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, Their honour into shame I change.

DBT

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.

About this book

Old Testament

▾

Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.

Author: Hosea son of Beeri (1:1)
Date: Ministry c. 755–715 BC — the decades leading up to the 722 BC fall of the northern kingdom

Book overview →Read full book →Read chapter 4 →

⋯

Commentary voices

loading…

Cross-references

18 verses on the floor

Psalms 4:2
O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
Hosea 13:6
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
1 Samuel 2:30
Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Hosea 10:1
Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

Show all 18 cross-references ▾

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Cross-references

loading…

Voices3

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

The more populous the nation grew, the more sin was committed and the more profane they were; their wealth, honour, and power, did but make them the more daring in sin. Therefore, says God, will I change their glory into shame. Are their numbers their glory?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Note, Those that leave off to take heed to the Lord leave off all good, and can expect no other than that all good should leave them. The people and the priests did harden one another in sin; and therefore justly shall they be sharers in the punishment (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Compare Ho 4:6, "thy children," to which their "increase" in numbers refers. so they sinned--(Compare Ho 10:1 and Ho 13:6). will I change their glory into shame--that is, I will strip them of all they now glory in (their numbers and power), and give them shame instead. A just retribution: as they changed their glory into shame, by idolatry (Ps 106:20;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

On this verse

loading…

Words3

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H3519200× in canon H7235227× in canon H2398238× in canon

The quotation web

loading…

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

loading…

Continue: Hosea 4 →