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

¹² My people ask counsel at their stocks, their staff must tell them. For a whorish mind hath deceived them, so that they commit fornication against their God. ¹³ They make sacrifices upon the high mountains, and burn their incense upon the hills, yea among the oaks, groves and bushes, for there are good shadows. Therefore your daughters are become harlots, and your spouses have broken their wedlock. ¹⁴ I will not punish your daughters for being defiled, and your brides that became whores: seeing the fathers themselves have meddled with harlots, and offered with unthriftiness: but the people that will not understand must be punished.

¹⁵ Though thou, Israel, are disposed to play the harlot, yet shouldest not thou have offended, O Judah. Thou shouldest not have run to Gilgal, nor gone up to Bethaven, nor have sworn, 'The LORD liveth.' ¹⁶ For Israel is gone back like a wanton cow. The LORD therefore shall make her feed, as the lamb that goeth astray. ¹⁷ And whereas Ephraim is become partaker of Idols: well, let him go. ¹⁸ Their drunkenness hath put them back, and brought them to whoredom. Their rulers love rewards; "Bring," say they, to their own shame. ¹⁹ A wind shall take hold of their feathers, and they shall be confounded in their offerings.