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Hosea 7:3

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Hosea 7:3 · King James Version

In other versions

  • They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

    ASV

  • In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

    BBE

  • They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

    DBY

  • They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.

    WEB

  • With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.

    YLT

  • They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

    ENG

  • They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

    WBT

  • They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.

    BSB

In context

1When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

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