Hosea 2:4
Israel’s Adultery Rebuked
3Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst. 4I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery. 5For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
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Berean Standard Bible
I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.
American Standard Version (1901)
Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;
Bible in Basic English
And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.
Free Bible Version
I will have no pity on her children because they are children of prostitution.
King James (Authorized) Version
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
Translation for Translators
I will not pity the people, because they have abandoned me as [MET] prostitutes abandon their husbands.
Unlocked Literal Bible
I will not have any mercy on her children,
for they are children of prostitution.
Noah Webster Bible
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of lewdness.
World English Bible
Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness.
Young's Literal Translation
And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms [are] they,