Hosea 4:1-19 - Yahweh Has An Indictment
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for the Lord has a case
against the inhabitants of the land:
There is no truth,
and no knowledge of God
and adultery
one act of bloodshed follows another.
and everyone who lives in it languishes,
along with the wild animals
even the fish of the sea disappear.
for My case is against you priests.
the prophet will also stumble with you by night.
And I will destroy your mother.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your sons.
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the more they sinned against Me.
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they have an appetite for their transgressions.
to both people and priests.
I will punish them for their ways
and repay them for their deeds.
they will be promiscuous
For they have abandoned their devotion to the Lord.
take away one’s understanding.
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and their divining rods inform them.
For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray;
they act promiscuously
in disobedience to
and they burn offerings on the hills,
and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
because their shade is pleasant.
And so your daughters act promiscuously
and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
when they act promiscuously
or your daughters-in-law
when they commit adultery,
for the men themselves go off with prostitutes
and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes.
People without discernment are doomed.
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don’t let Judah become guilty!
Do not go to Gilgal
or make a pilgrimage to Beth-aven,
and do not swear an oath: As the Lord lives!
Can the Lord now shepherd them
like a lamb in an open meadow?
leave him alone!
they turn to promiscuity.
Israel’s leaders
and they will be ashamed of their sacrifices.
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