Verse List for HOS 2:4

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) I won’t have mercy on her children, ⇔ → because they’re the products of prostitution,

OET-LV [fn] conduct _a _case with_mother _of_your(pl) conduct _a _case if/because she not wife _of_is_my and_I not her/its_husband/man and_let _her _remove prostitution(s)_of_her from_face _of_her[fn] and_adulteries _of_her from_between breasts _of_her.

ULT And I will not have compassion on her children, ⇔  for they, are children of prostitutions.

UST I will not pity her children, ⇔  because they are as unfaithful as their prostitute mother.

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

OEB And on her children I will have no pity, ⇔ since they are children of adultery,

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

MSG ^(2-13)“Haul your mother into court. Accuse her! She’s no longer my wife. I’m no longer her husband. Tell her to quit dressing like a whore, displaying her breasts for sale. If she refuses, I’ll rip off her clothes and expose her, naked as a newborn. I’ll turn her skin into dried-out leather, her body into a badlands landscape, a rack of bones in the desert. I’ll have nothing to do with her children, born one and all in a whorehouse. Face it: Your mother’s been a whore, bringing bastard children into the world. She said, ‘I’m off to see my lovers! They’ll wine and dine me, Dress and caress me, perfume and adorn me!’ But I’ll fix her: I’ll dump her in a field of thistles, then lose her in a dead-end alley. She’ll go on the hunt for her lovers but not bring down a single one. She’ll look high and low but won’t find a one. Then she’ll say, ‘I’m going back to my husband, the one I started out with. That was a better life by far than this one.’ She didn’t know that it was I all along who wined and dined and adorned her, That I was the one who dressed her up in the big-city fashions and jewelry that she wasted on wild Baal-orgies. I’m about to bring her up short: No more wining and dining! Silk lingerie and gowns are a thing of the past. I’ll expose her genitals to the public. All her fly-by-night lovers will be helpless to help her. Party time is over. I’m calling a halt to the whole business, her wild weekends and unholy holidays. I’ll wreck her sumptuous gardens and ornamental fountains, of which she bragged, ‘Whoring paid for all this!’ They will soon be dumping grounds for garbage, feeding grounds for stray dogs and cats. I’ll make her pay for her indulgence in promiscuous religion— all that sensuous Baal worship And all the promiscuous sex that went with it, stalking her lovers, dressed to kill, And not a thought for me.” God’s Message!

NET I will have no pity on her children, ⇔ because they are children conceived in adultery.

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

FBV I will have no pity on her children, because they are children of prostitution.

T4T I will not pity the people, ⇔  because they have abandoned me as [MET] prostitutes abandon their husbands.

LEB • And I will not have pity on her children,
• because they are children of whoredom.

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

Moff On her children I will have no mercy, ⇔ for they are born out of wedlock;

JPS (2-6) And I will not have compassion upon her children; for they are children of harlotry.

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

DRA And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are the children of fornications.

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

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

RV Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they be children of whoredom.

SLT And her sons I will not compassionate, for they are the sons of fornications.

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

KJB-1769 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
(And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms/prostitutions.)

KJB-1611 And I will not haue mercy vpon her children, for they be the children of whordomes.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps And I wyll haue no pitie vpon her chyldren: for they be the children of fornication.
(And I will have no pity upon her children: for they be the children of fornication.)

Gnva And I wil haue no pitie vpon her children: for they be the children of fornications.
(And I will have no pity upon her children: for they be the children of fornications.)

Cvdl I shal haue no pite also vpon hir children, for they be the children of fornicacion.
(I shall have no pity also upon her children, for they be the children of fornication.)

Wycl And Y schal not haue merci on the sones of hir, for thei ben sones of fornicaciouns;
(And I shall not have mercy on the sons of her, for they been sons of fornications;)

Luth Sprechet das Urteil über eure Mutter, sie sei nicht mein Weib, und ich will sie nicht haben. Heißt sie ihre Hurerei von ihrem Angesichte wegtun und ihre Ehebrecherei von ihren Brüsten,
(Sprechet the verdict above your(pl) mother, they/she/them be not my woman, and I will they/she/them not have. Is_called they/she/them their/her fornication from their/her faces put_away and their/her adultery from your(pl) breasts,)

ClVg Et filiorum illius non miserebor, quoniam filii fornicationum sunt.
(And of_children of_that not/no I_will_be_sorry, since/because children fornication are.)

UHB 6 וְ⁠אֶת־בָּנֶ֖י⁠הָ לֹ֣א אֲרַחֵ֑ם כִּֽי־בְנֵ֥י זְנוּנִ֖ים הֵֽמָּה׃ ‡

BrLXX Κρίθητε πρὸς τὴν μητέρα ὑμῶν, κρίθητε, ὅτι αὕτη οὐ γυνή μου, καὶ ἐγὼ οὐκ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς· καὶ ἐξαρῶ τὴν πορνείαν αὐτῆς ἐκ προσώπου μου, καὶ τὴν μοιχείαν αὐτῆς ἐκ μέσου μαστῶν αὐτῆς,

BrTr Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts: