Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “They delight the king with their wickedness, the princes with their lies. New Living Translation “The people entertain the king with their wickedness, and the princes laugh at their lies. English Standard Version By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery. Berean Standard Bible They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies. King James Bible They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. New King James Version They make a king glad with their wickedness, And princes with their lies. New American Standard Bible With their wickedness they make the king happy, And the officials with their lies. NASB 1995 With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies. NASB 1977 With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies. Legacy Standard Bible With their evil they make the king glad, And the princes with their deceptions. Amplified Bible They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies. Christian Standard Bible They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies. Holman Christian Standard Bible They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies. American Standard Version They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Contemporary English Version The king and his officials take great pleasure in their sin and deceit. English Revised Version They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. GOD'S WORD® Translation "They make kings happy with the wicked things they do. They make officials happy with the lies they tell. Good News Translation The LORD says, "People deceive the king and his officers by their evil plots. International Standard Version They please the king with their evil, and the princes with their dishonesty. Majority Standard Bible They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies. NET Bible The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies. New Heart English Bible They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Webster's Bible Translation They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. World English Bible They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionWith their wickedness they make a king glad, "" And with their lies—princes. Young's Literal Translation With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes. Smith's Literal Translation By their evil they will gladden the king, and the chiefs by their falsehoods. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThey have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies. Catholic Public Domain Version The king has rejoiced at their wickedness, and the leaders have rejoiced in their lies. New American Bible With their wickedness they make the king rejoice, the princes too, with their treacherous deeds. New Revised Standard Version By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treachery. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThey have made the kings glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated They gave joy to Kings and in their evil and in their unfaithfulness OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies. Brenton Septuagint Translation They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Ephraim's Iniquity…2But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face. 3They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies. 4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.… Cross References Jeremiah 9:2-6 If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people. / “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. / “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. ... Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him. Micah 7:3 Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together. Amos 5:12 For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate. Psalm 52:3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah Proverbs 29:12 If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked. Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. Jeremiah 5:26-28 For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men. / Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich. / They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy. Ezekiel 22:6-12 See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood. / Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed. / You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths. ... 1 Kings 15:26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit. 2 Kings 21:9 But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites. Romans 1:32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them. 2 Timothy 3:13 while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. Matthew 23:28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. John 3:19-20 And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. / Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. Treasury of Scripture They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. 1 Kings 22:6,13 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king… Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? Jump to Previous Deceit Delight Glad Lies Princes Rulers Sin Themselves Treachery WickednessJump to Next Deceit Delight Glad Lies Princes Rulers Sin Themselves Treachery WickednessHosea 7 1. A reproof of manifold sins.11. God's wrath against them for their hypocrisy. They delight The Hebrew root for "delight" is "שָׂמַח" (samach), which conveys a sense of joy or gladness. In this context, it is a bitter irony that the people find joy in actions that are morally corrupt. This highlights the depth of Israel's spiritual decay, where what should cause shame instead brings pleasure. The use of "delight" here underscores the perversion of values, where evil is celebrated rather than condemned. the king with their evil the princes with their lies (1) Rosenmüller quotes the explanation of Abarbanel to the following purport: "He (the prophet) means to say that the violent men of that ago were accustomed to narrate their atrocities to their kings, that the latter might thence derive entertainment." It is much the same whether the king and princes of that time took pleasure in the villanies which were perpetrated, or in the narratives of those villanies to which they listened, (2) A somewhat different rendering, and consequently different exposition, have much to recommend them: "In their wickedness they make the king merry, and in their feigning the princes;" their wickedness was their diabolical design to assassinate king and princes; with this object in view they make the king merry with wine so that he might fall an easy and unsuspecting victim; their feigning was their fell purpose of assassination under the profession of friendship. Such was the desperate treachery of those miscreant conspirators. This view tallies well with the context. Hebrew They delightיְשַׂמְּחוּ־ (yə·śam·mə·ḥū-) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 8055: To brighten up, be, blithe, gleesome the king מֶ֑לֶךְ (me·leḵ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4428: A king with their evil, בְּרָעָתָ֖ם (bə·rā·‘ā·ṯām) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 7451: Bad, evil the princes שָׂרִֽים׃ (śā·rîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 8269: Chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince with their lies. וּבְכַחֲשֵׁיהֶ֖ם (ū·ḇə·ḵa·ḥă·šê·hem) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 3585: A failure of flesh, emaciation, hypocrisy Links Hosea 7:3 NIVHosea 7:3 NLT Hosea 7:3 ESV Hosea 7:3 NASB Hosea 7:3 KJV Hosea 7:3 BibleApps.com Hosea 7:3 Biblia Paralela Hosea 7:3 Chinese Bible Hosea 7:3 French Bible Hosea 7:3 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Hosea 7:3 They make the king glad with their (Ho Hs Hos.) |
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