The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
Hosea 4:6 (NIV)

my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.
‘Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law of your God,
I also will ignore your children.
 
Hosea 4:7 (NIV)

The more priests there were,
the more they sinned against me;
they exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful.
 
Hosea 4:9 (NIV)

And it will be: like people, like priests.
I will punish both of them for their ways
and repay them for their deeds.
 
Hosea 4:10 (NIV)

‘They will eat but not have enough;
they will engage in prostitution but not flourish,
because they have deserted the Lord
to give themselves
 
Hosea 4:12 (NIV)

My people consult a wooden idol,
and a diviner’s rod speaks to them.
A spirit of prostitution leads them astray;
they are unfaithful to their God.
 
Hosea 4:13 (NIV)

They sacrifice on the mountaintops
and burn offerings on the hills,
under oak, poplar and terebinth,
where the shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution
and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
 
Hosea 4:14 (NIV)

‘I will not punish your daughters
when they turn to prostitution,
nor your daughters-in-law
when they commit adultery,
because the men themselves consort with harlots
and sacrifice with shrine-prostitutes –
a people without understanding will come to ruin!
 
Hosea 4:15 (NIV)

‘Though you, Israel, commit adultery,
do not let Judah become guilty.
‘Do not go to Gilgal;
do not go up to Beth Aven.
And do not swear, “As surely as the Lord lives!”
 
Hosea 4:16 (NIV)

The Israelites are stubborn,
like a stubborn heifer.
How then can the Lord pasture them
like lambs in a meadow?
 
Hosea 4:18 (NIV)

Even when their drinks are gone,
they continue their prostitution;
their rulers dearly love shameful ways.
 
Hosea 5:1 (NIV)

‘Hear this, you priests!
Pay attention, you Israelites!
Listen, royal house!
This judgment is against you:
you have been a snare at Mizpah,
a net spread out on Tabor.
 
Hosea 5:3 (NIV)

I know all about Ephraim;
Israel is not hidden from me.
Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution;
Israel is corrupt.
 
Hosea 5:4 (NIV)

‘Their deeds do not permit them
to return to their God.
A spirit of prostitution is in their heart;
they do not acknowledge the Lord.
 
Hosea 5:5 (NIV)

Israel’s arrogance testifies against them;
the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin;
Judah also stumbles with them.
 
Hosea 5:6 (NIV)

When they go with their flocks and herds
to seek the Lord,
they will not find him;
he has withdrawn himself from them
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back