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Hosea Chapter 4

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HOSEA

Hosea 4

1Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord shall enter into judgment 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.
Jeremiah 4:22, Jeremiah 4:22, Micah 6:2, Micah 6:2, Isaiah 3:13
2Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.
Hosea 6:9, Hosea 6:9, Hosea 7:1, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, Jeremiah 5:26
3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.
Zephaniah 1:3, Zephaniah 1:3, Isaiah 24:4, Isaiah 24:12, Nahum 1:4
4But yet let not any man judge: and let not a man be rebuked: for thy people are as they that contradict the priest.
Deuteronomy 17:12, Deuteronomy 17:12, Hosea 4:17, Amos 5:13, Hosea 4:17
5And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent.
Hosea 2:2, Jeremiah 15:8, Hosea 2:2, Jeremiah 15:8, Galatians 4:26
6My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
Isaiah 5:13, Isaiah 5:13, Proverbs 19:2, Proverbs 19:2, Hosea 6:6
7According to the multitude of them, so have they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.
Hosea 13:6, Hosea 13:6, Philippians 3:19, 1 Samuel 2:30, Philippians 3:19
8They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.
Isaiah 56:11, Isaiah 56:11, Micah 3:11, Titus 1:11, Micah 3:11
9And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their devices.
Isaiah 24:2, Jeremiah 5:31, Isaiah 24:2, Jeremiah 5:31, Matthew 15:14
10And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in not observing the law.
Micah 6:14, Micah 6:14, Leviticus 26:26, Leviticus 26:26, Haggai 1:6
11Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.
Proverbs 20:1, Proverbs 20:1, Luke 21:34, Isaiah 28:7, Luke 21:34
12My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them, and they have committed fornication against their God.
Jeremiah 2:27, Hosea 5:4, Jeremiah 2:27, Hosea 5:4, Habakkuk 2:19
13They offered sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burnt incense upon the hills: under the oak, and the poplar, and the turpentine tree, because the shadow thereof was good: therefore shall your daughters commit fornication, and your spouses shall be adulteresses.
Isaiah 1:29, Isaiah 1:29, Ezekiel 6:13, Jeremiah 3:6, Ezekiel 6:13
14I will not visit upon your daughters, when they shall commit fornication, and upon your spouses when they shall commit adultery: because themselves conversed with harlots, and offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and the people that doth not understand shall be beaten.
Hosea 4:1, Hosea 4:1, John 8:43, 2 Kings 23:7, Romans 3:11
15If thou play the harlot, O Israel, at least let not Juda offend: and go ye not into Galgal, and come not up into Bethaven, and do not swear: The Lord liveth.
Hosea 9:15, Hosea 12:11, Hosea 9:15, Hosea 12:11, Amos 4:4
16For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer now will the Lord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.
Isaiah 7:21, Isaiah 7:25, Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:6, Isaiah 22:18
17Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone.
Psalms 81:12, Psalms 81:12, Revelation 22:11, Hosea 4:4, Matthew 15:14
18Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by fornication: they that should have protected them have loved to bring shame upon them.
Micah 3:11, Micah 3:11, Exodus 23:8, Jeremiah 2:21, Micah 7:3
19The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall be confounded because of their sacrifices.
Isaiah 1:29, Isaiah 1:29, Jeremiah 51:1, Jeremiah 4:11, Jeremiah 4:12

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