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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Hosea 7:3 Catholic Bible: The LORD says, "People deceive the king and his officers by their evil plots. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/hosea/7-3.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/hosea/7-3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/hosea/7-3.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/hosea/1.htm">Hosea</a> > <a href="/gntd/hosea/7.htm">Chapter 7</a> > Verse 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/7-2.htm" title="Hosea 7:2">◄</a> Hosea 7:3 <a href="../hosea/7-4.htm" title="Hosea 7:4">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/hosea/7.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/hosea/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The LORD says, "People deceive the king and his officers by their evil plots. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treachery.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/hosea/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The king and his officials take great pleasure in their sin and deceit. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />With their wickedness they make the king rejoice, the princes too, with their treacherous deeds. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/hosea/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/5-11.htm">Hosea 5:11</a> Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/22-6.htm">1 Kings 22:6,13</a> Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall I forbear? They answered: Go up, and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/5-31.htm">Jeremiah 5:31</a> The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/9-2.htm">Jeremiah 9:2</a> Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/28-1.htm">Jeremiah 28:1-4</a> And it came to pass in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananias the son of Azur, a prophet of Gabaon spoke to me, in the house of the Lord before the priests, and all the people, saying: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/37-19.htm">Jeremiah 37:19</a> Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord the king: let my petition be accepted in thy sight: and send me not back into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../amos/7-10.htm">Amos 7:10-13</a> And the high places of the idol shall be thrown down, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste: and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../micah/6-16.htm">Micah 6:16</a> For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../micah/7-3.htm">Micah 7:3</a> The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/1-32.htm">Romans 1:32</a> Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/4-5.htm">1 John 4:5</a> They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the world heareth them.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/hosea/7.htm">Ephraim's Iniquity</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">2</span>And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face. <span class="reftext">3</span><span class="highl">They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.</span><span class="reftext">4</span>They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/1-32.htm">Romans 1:32</a></span><br />Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/28-1.htm">Jeremiah 28:1</a></span><br />And it came to pass in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananias the son of Azur, a prophet of Gabaon spoke to me, in the house of the Lord before the priests, and all the people, saying:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/4-2.htm">Hosea 4:2</a></span><br />Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/7-5.htm">Hosea 7:5</a></span><br />The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/10-13.htm">Hosea 10:13</a></span><br />You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, you have eaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy ways, in the multitude of thy strong ones.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/11-12.htm">Hosea 11:12</a></span><br />Ephraim hath compassed me about with denials, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Juda went down as a witness with God, and is faithful with the saints.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../micah/7-3.htm">Micah 7:3</a></span><br />The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">Deceit</a> <a href="/hosea/6-6.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/daniel/6-23.htm">Glad</a> <a href="/daniel/11-27.htm">Lies</a> <a href="/hosea/5-10.htm">Princes</a> <a href="/hosea/4-18.htm">Rulers</a> <a href="/hosea/7-2.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/hosea/7-2.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-26.htm">Treachery</a> <a href="/hosea/7-2.htm">Wickedness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hosea/10-13.htm">Deceit</a> <a href="/hosea/8-8.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Glad</a> <a href="/hosea/7-13.htm">Lies</a> <a href="/hosea/7-5.htm">Princes</a> <a href="/hosea/7-5.htm">Rulers</a> <a href="/hosea/7-12.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/hosea/7-5.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/zephaniah/3-4.htm">Treachery</a> <a href="/hosea/9-9.htm">Wickedness</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/7-3.htm">Hosea 7:3 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/7-3.htm">Hosea 7:3 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/7-3.htm">Hosea 7:3 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/7-3.htm">Hosea 7:3 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/7-3.htm">Hosea 7:3 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/7-3.htm">Hosea 7:3 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/7-3.htm">Hosea 7:3 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/7-3.htm">Hosea 7:3 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/hosea/7-3.htm">Hosea 7:3 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: And delight glad king lies make princes the their They wickedness with<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hosea/7-3.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 7:3 They make the king glad with their (Ho Hs Hos.) 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