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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 4 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="../cmenus/hosea/4.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="../topmenuchap/hosea/4-1.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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Hosea 4</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></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/3.htm" title="Hosea 3">◄</a> Hosea 4 <a href="../hosea/5.htm" title="Hosea 5">►</a></div></td></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="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Case against His People<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord <i>has</i> a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>that neither any one may plead, nor any one reprove <i>another</i>; but my people are as a priest spoken against.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with thee shall fall: I have compared thy mother unto night.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and <i>as</i> thou has forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their hearts on their iniquities.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have gone a-whoring, and shall by no means prosper: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They asked counsel by <i>means of</i> signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But thou, O Israel, be not ignorant, and go ye not, <i>men of</i> Juda, to Galgala; and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling-blocks in his own way.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Thou art a blast of wind in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../hosea/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../hosea/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>