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 the holy place, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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

Set their heart on their iniquity

Why do you kick at My sacrifice and My offering, which I have commanded in My house? Do you honor your sons above Me, to make yourselves fat with the best 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 vanity, and has not sworn deceitfully.

A Psalm of David. To You, O Jehovah, I lift up my soul.

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough; and they are shepherds who cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, to his own end.

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face. Should I at all be inquired of by them?

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come on us!

Who is even among you who will shut the doors, and you not kindle fire on My altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says Jehovah of Hosts. I will not be pleased with an offering from you.

For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.

whose mouth you must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain.

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.