Hosea 4:7

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Summary

Hosea 4:7

As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

They were

Ezra 9:7

Therefore

General references

Jeremiah 23:40

Bible References

They were

They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.

And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.

When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.

From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.

Therefore

For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.

As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;

And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

General references

And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.