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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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">God Accuses Israel</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Hear the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, O people of Israel;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land.</span></span><br /><span class="text">There is no faithfulness or loyalty,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and no knowledge of God in the land.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Swearing, lying, and murder,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and stealing and adultery break out;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">bloodshed follows bloodshed.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Therefore the land mourns,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and all who live in it languish;</span></span><br /><span class="text">together with the wild animals</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the birds of the air,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">even the fish of the sea are perishing.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Yet let no one contend,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and let none accuse,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for with you is my contention, O priest.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26410a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>You shall stumble by day;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the prophet also shall stumble with you by night,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I will destroy your mother.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">because you have rejected knowledge,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I reject you from being a priest to me.</span></span><br /><span class="text">And since you have forgotten the law of your God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I also will forget your children.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>The more they increased,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the more they sinned against me;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they changed<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26413b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> their glory into shame.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>They feed on the sin of my people;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they are greedy for their iniquity.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>And it shall be like people, like priest;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I will punish them for their ways,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and repay them for their deeds.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>They shall eat, but not be satisfied;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they shall play the whore, but not multiply;</span></span><br /><span class="text">because they have forsaken the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to devote themselves to </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum mid-line">11</span>whoredom.</span></span></p></div><h3><span class="text">The Idolatry of Israel</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">Wine and new wine</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">take away the understanding.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>My people consult a piece of wood,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and their divining rod gives them oracles.</span></span><br /><span class="text">For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and they have played the whore, forsaking their God.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and make offerings upon the hills,</span></span><br /><span class="text">under oak, poplar, and terebinth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">because their shade is good.</span></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text">Therefore your daughters play the whore,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for the men themselves go aside with whores,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and sacrifice with temple prostitutes;</span></span><br /><span class="text">thus a people without understanding comes to ruin.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Though you play the whore, O Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">do not let Judah become guilty.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Do not enter into Gilgal,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or go up to Beth-aven,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and do not swear, “As the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> lives.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Like a stubborn heifer,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Israel is stubborn;</span></span><br /><span class="text">can the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> now feed them</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">like a lamb in a broad pasture?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Ephraim is joined to idols—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let him alone.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>When their drinking is ended, they indulge in sexual orgies;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they love lewdness more than their glory.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26424c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>A wind has wrapped them<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26425d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> in its wings,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26425e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 4:4">Hosea 4:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 4:7">Hosea 4:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Ancient Heb tradition: MT <i>I will change</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 4:18">Hosea 4:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 4:19">Hosea 4:19</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>her</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 4:19">Hosea 4:19</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>sacrifices</i></span></li></ol></div> 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