Hosea 4:17

God's Case Against The People

¹⁶ For, as a heifer that is stubborn, hath Israel, been stubborn, - Now, can Yahweh, turn them out to pasture, like a young ram in a wide place? ¹⁷ Mated with idols, is Ephraim, let him alone. ¹⁸ Their drinking-bout, having passed, - they became, unchaste, they loved wildly, a contempt, became her great men.

Ephraim

Psalm 81:12

So then I let them go on in the stubbornness of their own heart, - They might walk in their own counsels!

Hosea 4:4

Howbeit let, no man, contend, nor let him rebuke another, - since, thy people, are as they who contend against a priest:

Hosea 13:2

Now, therefore they go on to sin, and have made them a Molten Thing out of their silver, after the notion of idols, the workmanship of craftsmen, all of it! Of them, are they saying - Ye sacrificers of men! The Great Calf, shall ye surely kiss!

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone! they are, blind leaders; and, if the, blind, lead the, blind, both, into a ditch, will fall.

Hosea 11:2

They invited them, - at once, they departed from before me, they, to the Baals, sacrificed, and, to the images, offered incense.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim, feedeth on wind, and pursueth the east wind, all the day, falsehood and force, doth he magnify, - and, a covenant with Assyria, would they solemnize, and, oil into Egypt, must be borne along.

Revelation 22:11

He that is doing unjustly, let him do unjustly, 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 hallowed, still: -