Hosea 4:17

God's Case Against The People

¹⁶ For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place. ¹⁷ Joined to idols is Ephraim, let him alone. ¹⁸ Sour is their drink, They have gone diligently a-whoring, Her protectors have loved shame thoroughly.

Ephraim

Psalm 81:12

And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

Hosea 4:4

Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And thy people are as those striving with a priest.

Hosea 13:2

And now do they add to sin, And make to them a molten image of their silver, By their own understanding -- idols, A work of artisans -- all of it, Of them they say, who are sacrificers among men, 'The calves let them kiss.'

Matthew 15:14

let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

Hosea 11:2

They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim is enjoying wind, And is pursuing an east wind, All the day lying and spoiling he multiplieth, And a covenant with Asshur they make, And oil to Egypt is carried.

Revelation 22:11

he who is unrighteous -- let him be unrighteous still, and he who is filthy -- let him be filthy still, and he who is righteous -- let him be declared righteous still, and he who is sanctified -- let him be sanctified still: