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Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Hear a word of YHWH, sons of Israel, "" For a strife [is] to YHWH with inhabitants of the land, "" For there is no truth, nor kindness, "" 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>Swearing, and lying, and murdering, "" And stealing, and committing adultery—have increased, "" And blood has touched against blood.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Therefore the land mourns, "" And every dweller is weak in it, "" With the beast of the field, "" And with the bird of the heavens, "" And the fishes of the sea—they are removed.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, "" And your people [are] as those striving with a priest.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And you have stumbled in the day, "" And a prophet has also stumbled with you in the night, "" And I have cut off your mother.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>My people have been cut off for lack of knowledge, "" Because you have rejected knowledge, "" I reject you from being priest to Me, "" And you forget the Law of your God—I forget your sons, I also!<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, "" I change their glory into shame.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The sin of My people they eat, "" And to their iniquity lift up their soul.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And it has been, like people, like priest, "" And I have charged on it its ways, "" And its habitual doings I return to it.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they have eaten, and are not satisfied, "" They have gone whoring, and do not increase, "" For they have left off taking heed to YHWH.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My people at its staff asks and its rod declares to it, "" For a spirit of whoredoms has caused to err, "" And they go whoring from under their God.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>On tops of the mountains they sacrifice, "" And on the hills they make incense, "" Under oak, and poplar, and terebinth, "" For good [is] its shade.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore your daughters commit whoredom, "" And your spouses commit adultery, "" I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, "" And after your spouses when they commit adultery, "" For they with the harlots are separated, "" And with the whores they sacrifice, "" A people that does not understand kicks.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Though you [are] a harlot, O Israel, "" Do not let Judah become guilty, "" And do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-Aven, "" Nor swear, YHWH lives.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For Israel has turned aside as a stubborn heifer, "" Now YHWH feeds them as a lamb in a large place.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Ephraim is joined to idols, leave him alone.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Sour [is] their drink, "" They have gone whoring diligently, "" Her protectors have thoroughly loved shame.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Wind has distressed her with its wings, "" And they are ashamed of their sacrifices!”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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