Hosea 4
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Hosea 4:5-15

5Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.1

6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.2 7As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. 8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.3 9And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.45 10For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to Yhwh. 11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.67

15Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth–aven, nor swear, Yhwh liveth.

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Notes

  1. 1. Hosea 4:5 destroy: Heb. cut off. ↩
  2. 2. Hosea 4:6 destroyed: Heb. cut off. ↩
  3. 3. Hosea 4:8 set…: Heb. lift up their soul to. ↩
  4. 4. Hosea 4:9 punish: Heb. visit upon. ↩
  5. 5. Hosea 4:9 reward: Heb. cause to return. ↩
  6. 6. Hosea 4:14 I will not: or, Shall I not. ↩
  7. 7. Hosea 4:14 fall: or, be punished. ↩

Commentaries on Hosea 4

Revised Literal Translation — © 2018 Michael W. Jones, Sr. — GPL