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Hosea 4:11

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away the mind and the [spiritual] understanding.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Drunkenness;   Minister, Christian;   Sin;   Wine;   Thompson Chain Reference - Drink, Strong;   Intemperance;   New;   Temperance;   Temperance-Intemperance;   Wine;   The Topic Concordance - Drunkenness;   Heart;   Whoredom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Drunkenness;   Wine;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Grapes;   Prostitution;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abstain, Abstinence;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Wine;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hosea;   Wine;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Drink;   High Place;   Hosea;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Wine and Strong Drink;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Wine;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Drunkenness;   Wine;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Asmodeus;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Promiscuity, wine, and new winetake away one’s understanding.
Hebrew Names Version
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
King James Version
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
English Standard Version
whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.
New American Standard Bible
Infidelity, wine, and new wine take away the understanding.
New Century Version
prostitution, to old and new wine, which take away their ability to understand.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whoredome, and wine, and newe wine take away their heart.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Legacy Standard Bible
Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away a heart of wisdom.
Berean Standard Bible
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
Contemporary English Version
and have been unfaithful to me, their Lord . My people, you are foolish because of too much pleasure and too much wine.
Complete Jewish Bible
Whoring and wine, both old and new, take away my people's wits.
Darby Translation
Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Sexual sins, strong drink, and new wine ruin a person's ability to think straight.
George Lamsa Translation
And they love whoredom, and wine and drunkenness take away their heart.
Good News Translation
The Lord says, "Wine, both old and new, is robbing my people of their senses!
Lexham English Bible
whoredom. Wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Literal Translation
Fornication and wine and new wine take away the heart.
American Standard Version
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Bible in Basic English
Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the heart.
King James Version (1611)
Whoredome, and wine, and newe wine take away the heart.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whordome, wine, and newe wine, take the heart away.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.
English Revised Version
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
World English Bible
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Fornycacioun, and wiyn, and drunkenesse doen awei the herte.
Update Bible Version
Prostitution and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Webster's Bible Translation
Lewdness and wine and new wine take away the heart.
New English Translation
Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.
New King James Version
"Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.
New Living Translation
to worship other gods. "Wine has robbed my people of their understanding.
New Life Bible
"Their sinful ways and both old and new wine take away My people's understanding.
New Revised Standard
whoredom. Wine and new wine take away the understanding.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Unchastity, and wine, and new wine, take away the heart.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.
Revised Standard Version
Wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Young's Literal Translation
Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whordome, wyne and dronckennesse take the herte awaye.
THE MESSAGE
"Wine and whiskey leave my people in a stupor. They ask questions of a dead tree, expect answers from a sturdy walking stick. Drunk on sex, they can't find their way home. They've replaced their God with their genitals. They worship on the tops of mountains, make a picnic out of religion. Under the oaks and elms on the hills they stretch out and take it easy. Before you know it, your daughters are whores and the wives of your sons are sleeping around. But I'm not going after your whoring daughters or the adulterous wives of your sons. It's the men who pick up the whores that I'm after, the men who worship at the holy whorehouses— a stupid people, ruined by whores!

Contextual Overview

6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge [of My law, where I reveal My will]. Because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. 7The more they multiplied [in numbers and increased in power], the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame. 8They (the priests) feed on the sin offering of My people And set their heart on their wickedness. 9And it shall be: like people, like priest [both are wicked and both will be judged]; So I will punish them for their ways And repay them for their deeds. 10They will eat, but not have enough; They will play the prostitute, but not increase [their descendants], Because they have stopped giving heed to the LORD. 11Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away the mind and the [spiritual] understanding.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

take: Hosea 4:12, Proverbs 6:32, Proverbs 20:1, Proverbs 23:27-35, Ecclesiastes 7:7, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 28:7, Luke 21:34, Romans 13:11-14

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:18 - gave it her 1 Kings 11:8 - all his strange wives 1 Kings 11:9 - his heart 1 Kings 20:16 - Benhadad Proverbs 5:14 - General Proverbs 5:22 - His Proverbs 17:16 - seeing Proverbs 23:28 - increaseth Proverbs 31:3 - strength Proverbs 31:4 - General Isaiah 28:1 - drunkards Isaiah 56:12 - I will Isaiah 57:5 - Enflaming Hosea 2:8 - wine Hosea 3:1 - love flagons Hosea 6:10 - there Hosea 7:11 - without Amos 2:6 - For three

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all the cattle, And more than any animal of the field; On your belly you shall go, And dust you shall eat All the days of your life.
Genesis 4:14
"Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the land; and from Your face (presence) I will be hidden, and I will be a fugitive and an [aimless] vagabond on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
Genesis 4:15
And the LORD said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain, a sevenfold vengeance [that is, punishment seven times worse] shall be taken on him [by Me]." And the LORD set a [protective] mark (sign) on Cain, so that no one who found (met) him would kill him.
Genesis 4:16
So Cain went away from the [manifested] presence of the LORD, and lived in the land of Nod [wandering in exile], east of Eden.
Genesis 4:19
And Lamech took for himself two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
Genesis 4:20
Adah gave birth to Jabal; he became the father of those [nomadic herdsmen] who live in tents and have cattle and raise livestock.
Genesis 4:21
His brother's name was Jubal; he became the father of all those [musicians] who play the lyre and flute.
Genesis 4:26
To Seth, also, a son was born, whom he named Enosh (mortal man, mankind). At that [same] time men began to call on the name of the LORD [in worship through prayer, praise, and thanksgiving].
Job 16:18
"O earth, do not cover my blood, And let there be no [resting] place for my cry [where it will cease being heard].
Isaiah 26:21
Listen carefully, the LORD is about to come out of His [heavenly] place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their wickedness [their sin, their injustice, their wrongdoing]; The earth will reveal the [innocent] blood shed upon her And will no longer cover her slain.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whoredom and wine, and new wine, take away the heart. Uncleanness and intemperance besot men, deprive them of reason and judgment, and even of common sense, make them downright fools, and so stupid as to do the following things; or they take away the heart from following the Lord, and taking heed to him, and lead to idolatry; or they "occupy" z the heart, and fill it up, and cause it to prefer sensual lusts and pleasures to the fear and love of God: their stupidity brought on hereby is exposed in the next verse; though it seems chiefly to respect the priests, who erred in vision through wine and strong drink, and stumbled in judgment, Isaiah 28:7.

z יקח לב "occupant cor", so some in Calvin and Rivet; "occupavit cor", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart - (Literally, “takes away”). Wine and fleshly sin are pictured as blended in one, to deprive man of his affections and reason and understanding, and to leave him brutish and irrational. In all the relations of life toward God and man, reason and will are guided by the affections. And so, in God’s language, the “heart” stands for the “understanding” as well as the “affections,” because it directs the understanding, and the understanding, bereft of true affections, and under the rule of passion, becomes senseless. Besides the perversion of the understanding, each of these sins blunts and dulls the fineness of the intellect; much more, both combined. The stupid sottishness of the confirmed voluptuary is a whole, of which each act of sensual sin worked its part. The Pagan saw this clearly, although, without the grace of God, they did not act on what they saw to be true and right. This, the sottishness of Israel, destroying their understanding, was the ground of their next folly, that they ascribed to “their stock” the office of God. “Corruption of manners and superstition” (it has often been observed) “go hand in hand.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 4:11. Whoredom and wine — These debaucheries go generally together.

Take away the heart. — Darken the understanding, deprave the judgment, pervert the will, debase all the passions, &c.


 
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