Hosea 4:7
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4:7The more the priests increased in numbers,
the more they rebelled against me.
They have turned15 their glorious calling
into a shameful disgrace!
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- 15 The reads אָמִיר (’amir, “I will change, exchange”; Hiphil imperfect 1st person common singular from מוּר, mur, “to change, exchange”). However, an alternate scribal tradition (tiqquneh sopherim, that is, an intentional scribal change when the Masoretes believed that the received consonantal reading was corrupt) preserves the reading הֵמִירוּ (hemiru, “they have exchanged”; Hiphil perfect 3rd person common plural from מוּר). This alternate scribal tradition is also found in the and reflected in the . Several translations follow the : , , “I will change their glory into shame” and “I will turn your honor into disgrace”; however, others adopt the alternate tradition: “they changed their glory into shame” and “they exchanged their Glory for something disgraceful.” For discussion in favor of the reading, see D. Barthélemy, e.d., Preliminary and Interim Report on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, 5:232.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
The more they increased,
the more they sinned against me;
I will change their glory into shame.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
The more priests there were,
the more they sinned against me;
they exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
The more they multiplied,
the more they sinned against me.
I will change their honor into disgrace.
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NLTNew Living Translation
The more priests there are,
the more they sin against me.
They have exchanged the glory of God
for the shame of idols.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
When they became many, their sin increased against me;
they changed their glory into shame.
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KJV 1900King James Version
As they were increased, so they sinned against me:
Therefore will I change their glory into shame.
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