Hosea 2:5 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
Hosea 2:5 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Hosea 2:5 in 6 Bible Translations
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Hosea 2:5 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’”
Hosea 2:5 — World English Bible
Hosea 2:5 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“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. ”
Hosea 2:5 — American Standard Version
Hosea 2:5 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“For gone a-whoring hath their mother, Acted shamefully hath their conceiver, For she hath said, I go after my lovers, Those giving my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”
Hosea 2:5 — Young's Literal Translation
Hosea 2:5 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“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. ”
Hosea 2:5 — Darby Translation
Hosea 2:5 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“For their mother hath plaied the harlot: she that conceiued them, hath done shamefully: for shee said, I will goe after my louers that giue me my bread and my water, my wooll and my flaxe, mine oyle and my drinke.”
Hosea 2:5 — Geneva Bible
Hosea 2:5 in Context — Hosea 2
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.
4 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.
7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
What Does Hosea 2:5 Mean?
Hosea 2:5 is a verse from the Book of Hosea, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Hosea chapter 2. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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