New International VersionThe days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired person a maniac.
New Living TranslationThe time of Israel’s punishment has come; the day of payment is here. Soon Israel will know this all too well. Because of your great sin and hostility, you say, “The prophets are crazy and the inspired men are fools!”
English Standard VersionThe days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
Berean Standard BibleThe days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
King James BibleThe days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know
it: the prophet
is a fool, the spiritual man
is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
New King James VersionThe days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet
is a fool, The spiritual man
is insane, Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
New American Standard BibleThe days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know
this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired person is insane, Because of the grossness of your wrongdoing, And
because your hostility is
so great.
NASB 1995The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And because your hostility is so great.
NASB 1977The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know
this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And
because your hostility is
so great.
Legacy Standard BibleThe days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come; Let Israel know
this! The prophet is an ignorant fool, The inspired man has madness, Because of the abundance of your iniquity And
because your hostility has abounded.
Amplified BibleThe days of punishment have come; The days of retribution are at hand; Let Israel know this! The prophet is [considered] a fool; The man [of God] who is inspired is [treated as if] demented, Because of the abundance of your wickedness
and guilt, And
because your deep antagonism [toward God and the prophets] is so great.
Christian Standard BibleThe days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come. Let Israel recognize it! The prophet is a fool, and the inspired man is insane, because of the magnitude of your iniquity and hostility.
Holman Christian Standard BibleThe days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come. Let Israel recognize it! The prophet is a fool, and the inspired man is insane, because of the magnitude of your guilt and hostility.
American Standard VersionThe days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.
Contemporary English VersionIsrael, the time has come. You will get what you deserve, and you will know it. "Prophets are fools," you say. "And God's messengers are crazy." Your terrible guilt has filled you with hatred.
English Revised VersionThe days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.
GOD'S WORD® TranslationThe time for them to be punished will come. The time for them to pay for their sins will come. [When this happens,] Israel will know it. [They think that] prophets are fools and that spiritual people are crazy. They have sinned a lot, and they are very hostile.
Good News TranslationThe time for punishment has come, the time when people will get what they deserve. When that happens, Israel will know it! "This prophet," you say, "is a fool. This inspired man is insane." You people hate me so much because your sin is so great.
International Standard VersionThe time for your judgment has now come; payday is here— and Israel knows it. The prophet is a fool, and the spiritual man is insane. Because of your great sin, the hatred against you is great.
NET BibleThe time of judgment is about to arrive! The time of retribution is imminent! Let Israel know! Israel Rejects Hosea's Prophetic Exhortations The prophet is considered a fool--the inspired man is viewed as a madman--because of the multitude of your sins and your intense animosity.
New Heart English BibleThe days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Let Israel know. The prophet is a fool, and the man of the spirit is mad, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
Webster's Bible TranslationThe days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the great hatred.
Majority Text Translations
Majority Standard BibleThe days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
World English BibleThe days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard VersionThe days of inspection have come in, "" The days of repayment have come in, Israel knows! The prophet [is] a fool, "" Mad [is] the man of the spirit, "" Because of the abundance of your iniquity, "" And great [is] the hatred.
Young's Literal Translation Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool is the prophet, Mad is the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great is the hatred.
Smith's Literal TranslationThe days of oversight came, the days of recompense came; Israel knew: the prophet is foolish, the man of the spirit, raving, for the multitude of thine iniquity and great destruction.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims BibleThe days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.
Catholic Public Domain VersionThe days of visitation have arrived; the days of retribution are here. Know this, Israel: that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, because of the multitude of your iniquities and the great extent of your foolishness.
New American BibleThey have come, the days of punishment! they have come, the days of recompense! Let Israel know it! “The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad!” Because your iniquity is great, great, too, is your hostility.
New Revised Standard VersionThe days of punishment have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel cries, “The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad!” Because of your great iniquity, your hostility is great.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa BibleThe days of vengeance have come, the days of recompense are near; then Israel shall know it; the prophet is a fool, a dull man possessed by a spirit of stupidity; because of the multitude of your iniquity, your lasciviousness has been increased.
Peshitta Holy Bible TranslatedThe days of vengeance have arrived; the days of payment have approached; Israel shall know the Prophet is a fool; a man is a madman for the evil in him; the spirit of insanity from the abundance of your evil made your debauchery to super abound
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917The days of visitation are come, The days of recompense are come, Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad! For the multitude of thine iniquity, the enmity is great.
Brenton Septuagint TranslationThe days of vengeance are come, the days of thy recompense are come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged: by reason of the multitude of thine iniquities thy madness has abounded.
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