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ULT HOS Chapter 4

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4 Hear the word of Yahweh, sons of Israel,

for Yahweh has a dispute with the dwellers of the land,

for there is no truth

and there is no covenant faithfulness,

and there is no knowledge of God in the land.

2 Swearing and deceiving and murdering and stealing and committing adultery!

They have broken out, and bloodshed touches bloodshed!

3 Therefore the land mourns,

and every dweller in it languishes,

along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens,

and even the fish of the sea are gathered away.

4 Surely no man may dispute,

and no man may reprove,

but your people are like those disputing with a priest!

5 And you will stumble by day,

and also the prophet will stumble with you by night,

and I will destroy your mother.

6 My people are destroyed from lack of the knowledge.

Because you, you have rejected the knowledge,

I will reject you from being a priest to me.

And you have forgotten the law of your God;

I, I also will forget your sons.

7 As they multiplied, so they sinned against me.

I will exchange their glory for dishonor.

8 They eat the sin of my people,

and to their iniquity they lift up his soul.

9 And it will be like people, like priest.

And I will visit upon him his ways, and I will return his deeds to him.

10 And they will eat but not be full.

They prostituted themselves, but they will not increase,

for they have forsaken to heed Yahweh.

11 Prostitution and wine and new wine take heart.

12 My people inquires of his wood,

and his staff declares to him,

for a spirit of prostitutions has led astray,

and they have prostituted themselves from under their God.

13 On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice,

and on the hills they burn incense,

under oak and poplar and terebinth,

for its shade is good.

Therefore your daughters prostitute themselves,

and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

14 I will not visit upon your daughters when they prostitute themseves,

and upon your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery,

for the men, they go aside with the prostitutes,

and they sacrifice with the temple prostitutes,

and a people who does not understand will be thrown down.

15 If you are prostituting yourself, Israel,

let not Judah become guilty.

And do not go to Gilgal, and do not go up to Beth Aven, and do not swear, “By the life of Yahweh.”

16 For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn cow.

Now will Yahweh pasture them like a lamb in a wide place?

17 Ephraim is joined to idols.

Leave him alone.

18 Their drink has ceased.

Prostituting, they have prostituted themselves.

Her shields have loved, loved dishonor.

19 A wind has wrapped her in its wings,

and they will have shame from their sacrifices.

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