CINXE.COM

<!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 Lamsa Bible</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="../">Lamsa</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">Lamsa Bible</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"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>HEAR the word of the LORD, O children of Israel; for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no justice or mercy or knowledge of God in the land;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>But cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they have increased and they mix blood with blood.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>Therefore the land shall mourn, and all its inhabitants shall languish, even the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air; and the fish of the sea also shall perish.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Because none judges nor reproves another, for your people is engaged in controversy like a priest.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>Therefore you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet of your people also shall stumble in the night, and yet your mother keeps silence.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>My people are silent for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from the priesthood; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>According to the multitude of them, so they have sinned against me; they changed their honor into shame.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>They devoured my people unmercifully, and they have engulfed themselves in their iniquity.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>The priest has become common like the people; and I will punish them for their ways and reward them for their deeds.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>For they shall eat and not be satisfied; they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase, because they have forsaken the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>And they love whoredom, and wine and drunkenness take away their heart.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>My people ask counsel of their own imagination, and their staff declares to them the directions; for the spirit of whoredom has caused them to go astray, so they have turned from their God.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinth, because their shadow is good; therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom and your brides shall commit adultery.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-14.htm#aramaic"><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 are mingled with whores, and they sacrifice with shameless harlots; therefore a people that does not understand embraces the harlot.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>As for you, O Israel, you shall not condemn Judah; nor shall you go to Gilgal, neither come up to Beth-aon; nor shall you say, The LORD lives.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>For as a heifer that slides back from the yoke, so Israel balks; now the LORD will feed them like lambs in a wide pasture.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>They all commit whoredom, and they love shame and idolatry.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/4-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>Let the wind rend asunder their robes; let them be ashamed of their altars.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. Lamsa (1933)<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>