Hosea 4:17

God's Case Against The People

¹⁶ Since Israel is stubborn
Like a stubborn heifer,
Can the Lord now pasture them
Like a lamb in a large field?
¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols;
Let him alone.
¹⁸ Their liquor gone,
They play the harlot continually;
Their rulers dearly love shame.

Ephraim

Psalm 81:12

“So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in their own devices.

Hosea 4:4

Yet let no one find fault, and let none offer reproof;
For your people are like those who contend with the priest.

Hosea 13:2

And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves molten images,
Idols skillfully made from their silver,
All of them the work of craftsmen.
They say of them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Hosea 11:2

The more they called them,
The more they went from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to idols.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feeds on wind,
And pursues the east wind continually;
He multiplies lies and violence.
Moreover, he makes a covenant with Assyria,
And oil is carried to Egypt.

Revelation 22:11

Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself holy.”