Hosea 4:12-19 - God's Case Against The People

¹² My people, of their Wood, do ask, - Let, their Staff, then tell them, - for, the spirit of unchastity, hath led them astray, and they have unchastely departed from under their God. ¹³ On the headlands of the mountains, they sacrifice, and, on the hills, burn they incense, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because, pleasant, is the shade thereof: For this cause, do your daughters, become unchaste, and, your brides, commit adultery. ¹⁴ I do not bring punishment upon your daughters when they become unchaste, nor upon your brides, when they commit adultery, for, the men themselves, with unchaste women, do seclude themselves, and, with the common women of the shrine, do offer sacrifice, - and, a people who will not discern, must be ruined.

¹⁵ Though unchaste art thou, O Israel, let not Judah, become guilty, neither let them enter Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and then swear, By the life of Yahweh! ¹⁶ For, as a heifer that is stubborn, hath Israel, been stubborn, - Now, can Yahweh, turn them out to pasture, like a young ram in a wide place? ¹⁷ Mated with idols, is Ephraim, let him alone. ¹⁸ Their drinking-bout, having passed, - they became, unchaste, they loved wildly, a contempt, became her great men. ¹⁹ The wind hath bound her up in its wings, - that they may be ashamed, because of their sacrifices.