Hosea 4:17

God's Case Against The People

¹⁶ For Israel slides back like a backsliding heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a large place. ¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone. ¹⁸ Their drink is sour; they are continually fornicating; her rulers dearly love shame.

Ephraim

Psalm 81:12

So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their own hearts; and they walked in their own conceits.

Hosea 4:4

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another. For your people are as those who strive with the priest.

Hosea 13:2

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

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Hosea 11:2

As they called them, so they went from them. They sacrifice to the Baals, and burn incense to graven images.

Hosea 12:1

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

Revelation 22:11

He acting unjustly, let him still act unjustly. And the filthy, let him be filthy still. And the righteous, let him be righteous still. And the holy, let him be holy still.