Hosea 4:8

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Summary

Hosea 4:8

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

Eat

Leviticus 6:26

Leviticus 7:6

Set their heart on their iniquity

Bible References

Eat

The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting.

Every male among the priests shall eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

Set their heart on their iniquity

Why do ye kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?

He who has clean hands, and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

To thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

Yea, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.

Oh that there was among you who would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says LORD of hosts, nor will I accept an offering at your hand.

For such kind serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their smooth words and elegant speech they deceive the hearts of the naive.

who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit.

And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.