English Bible
Hosea 4
Big screen- 1Hear the word of the LORD, all of you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
- 2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood touches blood.
- 3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
- 4Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest.
- 5Therefore shall you fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother.
- 6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
- 7As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
- 8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
- 9And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
- 10For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
- 11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
- 12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to go astray, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
- 13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
- 14I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that does not understand shall fall.
- 15Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not all of you unto Gilgal, neither go all of you up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives.
- 16For Israel slides back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
- 17Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
- 18Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give all of you.
- 19The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.