23 Your rulers are rebels,(A)
    partners with thieves;(B)
they all love bribes(C)
    and chase after gifts.
They do not defend the cause of the fatherless;
    the widow’s case does not come before them.(D)

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23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

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23 (A)Your princes are rebellious,
And (B)companions of thieves;
(C)Everyone loves bribes,
And follows after rewards.
They (D)do not defend the fatherless,
Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

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23 Your princes are rebels
    and companions of thieves.
Everyone (A)loves a bribe
    and runs after gifts.
(B)They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
    and the widow's cause does not come to them.

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And it will be: Like people, like priests.(A)
    I will punish both of them for their ways
    and repay them for their deeds.(B)

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And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

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And it shall be: (A)like people, like priest.
So I will punish them for their ways,
And [a]reward them for their deeds.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:9 repay

(A)And it shall be like people, like priest;
    I will punish them for their ways
    and repay them for their deeds.

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The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter.(A)
    I will discipline all of them.(B)

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And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

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The revolters are (A)deeply involved in slaughter,
Though I rebuke them all.

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And (A)the revolters (B)have gone deep into slaughter,
    but (C)I will discipline all of them.

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