Hosea 4:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

Punish

Hosea 4:17

Isaiah 1:5

Hebrews 12:8

For

1 Corinthians 6:16

And they

1 Kings 14:23

1 Kings 15:12

2 Kings 23:7

Therefore

General references

Proverbs 5:9

Bible References

Punish

Ephraim has become entwined with idols; leave him alone!

"Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? Your whole head is sick, and your whole heart is faint.

Now if you are without any discipline, in which all sons share, then you are illegitimate and not God's sons.

For

You know that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her, don't you? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

And they

They erected high places, sacred pillars, and Asherim for themselves on every high hill and under every green tree.

He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and destroyed all the idols that his ancestors had made.

He also demolished the temples of the cultic male prostitutes that had been operating in the LORD's Temple, where the women had been doing weaving for the Asherah.

Therefore

"Hear this message from the LORD, people of Israel. Indeed, the LORD brings a charge against the people who live in the land for there is no truth and no gracious love or knowledge of God in the land.

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things. Whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right: the righteous follow his example, but the rebellious stumble in them.

Evil men don't understand justice, but whoever seeks the LORD understands it all.

They don't realize; they don't understand, because their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds, too, so they cannot understand.

Meanwhile, the dogs have a mighty appetite they can never get enough. And as for them, they are the shepherds who lack understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, each and every one.

Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined, though the wicked will continue to act wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand. Nevertheless, the insightful will understand.

Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.

No one understands. No one searches for God.

They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.

General references

so that you don't give your honor to others, and waste your best years;