KJV King James Version
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
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Hosea 4:11
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.
WEB World English Bible
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
ASV American Standard Version
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,
Surrounding context — Hosea 4
8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people [that] doth not understand shall fall.
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Proverbs 20:1Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares.Isaiah 28:7But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.Hosea 4:12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.Romans 13:11-14And that, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.Isaiah 5:12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.Proverbs 6:32[But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.Proverbs 23:27-35For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.Ecclesiastes 7:7Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
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