Hosea 4:17

God's Case Against The People

¹⁶ For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Now LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. ¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone. ¹⁸ Their drink has become sour. They play the harlot continually. Her rulers dearly love shame.

Ephraim

Psalm 81:12

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Hosea 4:4

Yet, let no man strive, nor let any man reprove, for thy people are as those who strive with the priest.

Hosea 13:2

And now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Let the men who sacrifice kiss the ca

Matthew 15:14

Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.

Hosea 11:2

The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Revelation 22:11

Let the man doing wrong still do wrong, and let the filthy man still be filthy. And let the righteous man still do righteousness, and let the holy man still be holy.