Hosea 4:11

Yahweh Has An Indictment

¹⁰ They will eat and not be satisfied; they will play the whore and not multiply, because they have forsaken Yahweh {to devote themselves to ¹¹ whoredom}. Wine and new wine {take away the understanding}. ¹² My people, consult {their wooden idols}, and their divining rod gives them oracles; because a spirit of whoredom led [them] astray, and they played the whore from under their God.

My People

New Wine

Sexual Immorality

Proverbs 20:1

Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and any who go astray by it are not wise.

Isaiah 28:7

And these also stagger because of wine and stagger because of strong drink; priest and prophet stagger because of strong drink; they are confused because of wine. They stagger because of strong drink; they err in vision. They stagger [in the] rendering of a decision,

Luke 21:34

"But take care for yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of daily life, and that day come upon you suddenly

Isaiah 5:12

And [there] will be lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine [at] their feasts, but they do not look at the deeds of Yahweh, and they do not see the work of his hands.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks {sense}, he destroys himself who does it.

Proverbs 23:27-35

For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is {an adulteress}.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely oppression makes a fool of the wise, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

Hosea 4:12

My people, consult {their wooden idols}, and their divining rod gives them oracles; because a spirit of whoredom led [them] astray, and they played the whore from under their God.

Romans 13:11-14

And [do] this [because you] know the time, that [it is] already the hour for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation [is] nearer now than when we believed.