Hosea 4:17

God's Case Against The People

¹⁶ Indeed, like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; Now Yahweh will feed them, like a lamb in broad pasture. ¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone. ¹⁸ When their drinking has ended, they surely indulge in sexual orgies. They love lewdness more than their glory.

Ephraim

Psalm 81:12

So I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart; they walked in their counsels.

Hosea 4:4

Yet, let no one contend, and let no one accuse, for with you, O priest, [is my] contention.

Hosea 13:2

And now they sin again, and they make for themselves a molten idol, idols from their silver metal according to their understanding, all of them the work of skilled craftsmen. To these they say, "Sacrifice!" People are kissing bull calves.

Matthew 15:14

Let them! They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."

Hosea 11:2

When I called them, they went from my face. They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim herds [the] wind and [is] pursuing [the] east wind all day long; he multiplies deception and violence and he {makes a treaty with Assyria}, and oil is brought to Egypt.

Revelation 22:11

The one who does evil, let him do evil still, and the defiled, let him be defiled still, and the righteous, let him practice righteousness still, and the holy, let him be holy still."