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Hosea 4 📜 📕 ↷
God's Case against His People
1 HEAR the word of our Lord ye children of Israel, because there is judgement to our Lord with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land.📜💬📚
2 Cursing, and lying, and manslaughter, & theft, and adultery have overflowed, & blood hath touched blood.📜💬📚
3 For this shall the land mourn, and every one shall be weakened that dwelleth in it, in the beast of the field, and in the fowl of the heaven: yea and the fishes of the sea shall be gathered together.📜💬📚
4 But yet let not every man judge: and let not a man be rebuked: for the people are as those, that gainsay the Priest.📜💬📚
5 And thou shalt fall to day, and the Prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I made thy mother hold her peace.📜💬📚
6 My people have held their peace, because they had not knowledge: because thou hast repelled knowledge, I will repel thee, that thou do not the function of priesthood unto me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.📜💬📚
7 According to the multitude of them so have they sinned to me: their glory I will change into ignominy.📜💬📚
8 They shall eat the sins of my people, and at their iniquity shall lift up their souls.📜💬📚
9 And as the people, so shall the Priest be: and I will visit their ways upon them, and their cogitations I will render to them.📜💬📚
10 And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have fornicated, & have not ceased: because they have forsaken our Lord in not observing.📜💬📚
11 Fornication, & wine, & drunkenness take away the heart.📜💬📚
12 My people hath asked in their wood, & their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornications hath deceived them, & they have fornicated from their God.📜💬📚
13 Upon the heads of mountains they did sacrifice, and upon little hills they burnt incense: under the oak, and the poplar-tree, and the terebinth, because the shadow thereof was good: therefore shall your daughters fornicate, and your spouses shall be adulteresses.📜💬📚
14 I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall fornicate, and upon your spouses when they shall commit adultery: because they themselves converst with harlots, and with the effeminate they did sacrifice, and the people not understanding shall be beaten.📜💬📚
15 If thou fornicate o Israel, at the least let not Juda offend: and enter ye not into Galgal, and go not up into Bethaven, neither swear ye: Our Lord liveth.📜💬📚
16 Because Israel hath declined as a wanton cow: now will our Lord feed them, as a lamb in latitude.📜💬📚
17 Ephraim is partaker of idols, let him alone.📜💬📚
18 Their banquet is separated, with fornication they have fornicated: the protectors thereof loved to bring ignominy.📜💬📚
19 The spirit hath bound him in his wings, and they shall be confounded at their sacrifices.📜💬📚
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