Hosea 4:10

WEB

¹⁰They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned listening to the LORD.

KJV

¹⁰For 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.

BSB

¹⁰They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.

FBV

¹⁰They will eat, but they will not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution,^[+] but they will not prosper because they have given up on the Lord to go and prostitute themselves to other gods.

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Extra References

Micah 6:14

¹⁴You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your hunger will be within you. You will store up, but not save, and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

Leviticus 26:26

²⁶When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

⁶You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’

Proverbs 13:25

²⁵The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

Psalms 36:3

³The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Zephaniah 1:6

⁶those who have turned back from following the LORD, and those who haven’t sought the LORD nor inquired after him.

Psalms 125:5

⁵But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

Ezekiel 18:24

²⁴“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

Malachi 2:1-3

¹“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. ²If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says the LORD of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart. ³Behold, I will rebuke your offspring,^[+] and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

Isaiah 65:13-16

¹³Therefore the Lord GOD says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed. ¹⁴Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit. ¹⁵You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen, and the Lord GOD will kill you. He will call his servants by another name, ¹⁶so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.