Thematic Bible
Hosea 4:1 (show verse)
Hear the word of the LORD, ye sons of Israel; for the LORD contends with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the earth.
Hosea 4:2 (show verse)
By swearing and lying and murdering and stealing and committing adultery, they prevailed, and blood touches blood.
Hosea 4:3 (show verse)
Therefore the earth shall mourn, and every one that dwells therein shall be cut off, with the beasts of the field and the fowls of heaven; and even the fishes of the sea shall be caught.
Hosea 4:4 (show verse)
Certainly man does not contend with nor reprehend man; for thy people are as those that resist the priest.
Hosea 4:5 (show verse)
Therefore thou shalt fall in the day, and the prophet shall also fall with thee by night, and I will cut off thy mother.
Hosea 4:6 (show verse)
My people were cut off because they lacked wisdom; because thou hast rejected wisdom, I will cast thee out of the priesthood; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy sons.
Hosea 4:7 (show verse)
According to their greatness, so did they sin against me; therefore I will change their honour into shame.
Hosea 4:8 (show verse)
They eat up the sin of my people, and in their iniquity they raise up their soul.
Hosea 4:9 (show verse)
The people shall become like the priest; and I will visit his ways upon him, and they shall reward him according to his doings.
Hosea 4:10 (show verse)
For they shall eat and not be satisfied; they shall commit whoredom and shall not increase because they have quit showing hospitality unto the LORD.
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Hosea 4:11 (show verse)
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Hosea 4:12 (show verse)
My people ask counsel of their wooden idol, and their stick declares unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring under their gods.
Hosea 4:13 (show verse)
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, that had good shade; therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.
Hosea 4:14 (show verse)
I will not visit upon your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor upon your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery: for they offer with whores, and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes; therefore the people without understanding shall fall.
Hosea 4:15 (show verse)
Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah be guilty; and do not come unto Gilgal, neither go up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives,
Hosea 4:16 (show verse)
for Israel has turned away as a wild heifer; shall the LORD now feed them as rams in a large place?
Hosea 4:17 (show verse)
Ephraim is given over to idols; leave him.
Hosea 4:18 (show verse)
Their drink has become corrupted; they have committed whoredom continually; her princes love gifts, shamefully.
Hosea 4:19 (show verse)
The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.