Hosea 4:9

The Lord Accuses The Priests

⁸ They feed on the sin of My people
And direct their desire toward their iniquity.
⁹ And it will be, like people, like priest;
So I will punish them for their ways
And repay them for their deeds.
¹⁰ They will eat, but not have enough;
They will play the harlot, but not increase,
Because they have stopped giving heed to the Lord.

I Will Repay

For Their Deeds

I Will Requite

Isaiah 24:2

And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests rule on their own authority;
And My people love it so!
But what will you do at the end of it?

Psalm 109:17-18

He also loved cursing, so it came to him;
And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities will capture the wicked,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

Isaiah 3:10

Say to the righteous that it will go well with them,
For they will eat the fruit of their actions.

Isaiah 9:14-16

So the Lord cuts off head and tail from Israel,
Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.

Jeremiah 8:10-12

“Therefore I will give their wives to others,
Their fields to new owners;
Because from the least even to the greatest
Everyone is greedy for gain;
From the prophet even to the priest
Everyone practices deceit.

Jeremiah 23:11-12

“For both prophet and priest are polluted;
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:26-31

Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Hosea 1:4

And the Lord said to him, “Name him Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

Hosea 8:13

As for My sacrificial gifts,
They sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the Lord has taken no delight in them.
Now He will remember their iniquity,
And punish them for their sins;
They will return to Egypt.

Hosea 9:9

They have gone deep in depravity
As in the days of Gibeah;
He will remember their iniquity,
He will punish their sins.

Zechariah 1:6

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, ‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has dealt with us.’”’”

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”