These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Hosea 4
Tanakh 19 verses
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Hear the of , ye children of ! For hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, Because there is no , nor , Nor knowledge of in the land.
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Micah 6:2 Jeremiah 4:22 Isaiah 3:13-14 Jeremiah 25:31 Hosea 12:2 Jeremiah 5:4 Jeremiah 34:4 John 8:55 Isaiah 1:18 Revelation 2:29 Romans 1:28 Jeremiah 7:28 Amos 7:16 Micah 7:2-5 Isaiah 1:10 Isaiah 34:1 1 Kings 22:19 1 Corinthians 15:34 Jeremiah 6:13 Jeremiah 9:20 Jeremiah 7:2-6 Revelation 2:11 Isaiah 34:8 Isaiah 5:3 Jeremiah 19:3 Isaiah 66:5 Isaiah 59:13-15 Isaiah 28:14 Jeremiah 4:28 Hosea 5:1 Jeremiah 2:4 -
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Swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery! They break all bounds, and toucheth .
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Hosea 6:9 Jeremiah 5:26-27 Hosea 7:1 Micah 7:2 Jeremiah 6:7 Jeremiah 7:6-10 Isaiah 59:2-8 Isaiah 59:12-15 Isaiah 24:5 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Jeremiah 5:7-9 Micah 3:9 Jeremiah 9:2-8 Zechariah 5:3 Lamentations 4:13 Matthew 23:35 Hosea 12:14 Ezekiel 22:2-13 Acts 7:52 Hosea 7:3 Revelation 17:6 Micah 6:10 Ezekiel 22:25-30 Micah 2:1-3 Jeremiah 5:1-2 Hosea 5:2 Zephaniah 3:1 Jeremiah 23:10-14 Isaiah 48:1 Micah 3:2 Hosea 10:4 Zechariah 7:9 - 3 Therefore doth the land mourn, And every one that dwelleth therein doth languish, With the beasts of the field, and the fowls of ; Yea, the fishes of the sea also are taken away.
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Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; For thy people are as they that strive with the .
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- 5 Therefore shalt thou stumble in the day, And the also shall stumble with thee in the night; And I will destroy thy mother.
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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no to Me; Seeing thou hast forgotten the of thy , I also will forget thy children.
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Isaiah 5:13 Proverbs 19:2 Hosea 8:14 Isaiah 17:10 Isaiah 1:3 2 Chronicles 15:3 Psalm 119:61 Hosea 4:1 Hosea 13:6 Matthew 15:14 Jeremiah 2:8 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Psalm 119:139 Zechariah 11:15-17 Matthew 15:3-6 Malachi 2:7-9 Isaiah 45:20 Hosea 4:12 Jeremiah 4:22 Hosea 2:13 Malachi 2:1-3 Jeremiah 8:7-9 Matthew 15:8 Isaiah 28:7 Jeremiah 5:21 Zechariah 11:8-9 Luke 20:16-18 Mark 12:8-9 Isaiah 3:12 Matthew 21:41-45 Hosea 6:6 2 Kings 17:16-20 Matthew 1:6 Isaiah 27:11 1 Samuel 2:28-36 Matthew 23:16-26 Hosea 8:1 1 Samuel 2:12 Proverbs 1:30-32 1 Samuel 3:12-15 Isaiah 56:10-12 Hosea 8:12 Job 36:12 Jeremiah 5:3-4 - 7 The more they were increased, the more they sinned against Me; I will change their into shame.
- 8 They feed on the sin of My people, And set their on their iniquity.
- 9 And it is like people, like ; And I will punish him for his ways, And will recompense him his doings.
- 10 And they shall eat, and not have enough, They shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase; Because they have left off to take heed to .
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Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the .
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- 12 My people ask counsel at their stock, And their staff declareth unto them; For the of harlotry hath caused them to err, And they have gone astray from under their .
- 13 They upon the tops of the mountains, And offer upon the hills, Under oaks and poplars and terebinths, Because the shadow thereof is good; Therefore your daughters commit harlotry, And your daughters-in- commit adultery.
- 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, Nor your daughters-in- when they commit adultery; For they themselves consort with lewd women, And they with harlots; And the people that is without understanding is distraught.
- 15 Though thou, , play the harlot, Yet let not become guilty; And come not ye unto , Neither go ye up to Beth-aven, Nor swear: ‘As liveth.’
- 16 For is stubborn like a stubborn heifer; Now shall feed them as a lamb in a large place?
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is joined to idols; Let him alone.
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- 18 When their carouse is over, They take to harlotry; Her rulers deeply dishonour.
- 19 The wind hath bound her up in her skirts; And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.