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 is joined to idols; let him alone.

Why do you want to be beaten again? You continue [in] rebellion. [The] whole of [the] head [is] sick, and [the] whole of [the] heart [is] faint.

But if you are without discipline, in which all [legitimate sons] have become participants, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

For

Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body [with her]? For it says, "The two will become one flesh."

And they

They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

He put away the male shrine prostitutes from the land, and he removed all of the idols that his ancestors made.

He tore down the shrines of the male shrine prostitutes which were in the temple of Yahweh, where the women were weaving shrines for the Asherah.

Therefore

Hear the word of Yahweh, children of Israel, for Yahweh has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty, there is no knowledge of God in the land.

Who [is] wise that he can understand these [things]? Who is discerning that he knows them? The ways of Yahweh [are] right, and [the] righteous walk in them; but transgressors stumble in them.

Men of evil do not understand justice, but seekers of Yahweh understand completely.

They do not know, and they do not understand, for their eyes [are] besmeared {so that they cannot see}, their {minds} {so that they have no insight}.

And the dogs {have a greedy appetite}; they {are never satisfied}. And they are [the] shepherds! They do not have understanding. They all turn to their [own] way, each one for his [own] gain, {every one of them}.

Many will be purified and will be cleansed and will be refined, but [the] wicked will act wickedly {and none of the wicked will understand}, but {those who have insight} will understand.

{Why} do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message.

[there] is no one who understands; [there] is no one who seeks God.

being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

General references

lest you give your honor to the others, and your years to the merciless,