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they break out, and blood toucheth blood.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>My 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 also will forget thy children.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And it shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and will reward them their doings.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters commit whoredom, and your brides commit adultery.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for they themselves go apart with whores, and they sacrifice with the harlots: and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Though 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, As the LORD liveth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will the LORD feed them as a lamb in a large place.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Their drink is become sour: they commit whoredom continually; her rulers dearly love shame.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings; 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