Hosea 4:17

God's Case Against The People

¹⁶ For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place. ¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone. ¹⁸ Their drink is 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, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

Hosea 13:2

And now they sin more and more, and have made them 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 that sacrifice kiss the calves.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

Hosea 11:2

The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Revelation 22:11

He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still.