en_wbms - Hos 4 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Sons of Israel, hear ye the word of the Lord, for why doom is to the Lord with the dwellers of earth; for why truth is not, and mercy is not, and knowing of the Lord is not in earth.

² Curse, and leasing, and man-quelling, and theft, and adultery flowed, and blood touched blood.

³ For this thing the earth shall mourn, and each that dwelleth in that land shall be sick, in the beast of the field, and in the bird of the air; but also the fishes of the sea shall be gathered together.

⁴ Nevertheless each man deem not, and a man be not reproved; for thy people is as they that against-say the priest.

⁵ And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet also shall fall with thee; in the night I made thy mother to be still.

⁶ My people was still, for it had not knowing; for thou hast put away knowing, I shall put thee away, that thou use not priesthood to me; and for thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, also I shall forget thy sons.

⁷ By the multitude of them, so they sinned against me. I shall change the glory of them into shame.

⁸ They shall eat the sins of my people, and they shall raise the souls of them to the wickedness of them.

⁹ And it shall be, as the people, so the priest; and I shall visit on him the ways of him, and I shall yield to him the thoughts of him.

¹⁰ And they shall eat, and they shall not be [ful] filled; they did fornication, and ceased not, for they forsook the Lord in not keeping his word.

¹¹ Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness do away the heart.

¹² My people asked in his tree, and the staff thereof told to it; for the spirit of fornication deceived them, and they did fornication, going away from their God.

¹³ On the heads, either tops, of mountains they made sacrifice, and on the little hills they burnt incense under an oak, and a poplar, and a terebinth, for the shadow thereof was good. Therefore your daughters shall do fornication, and your wives shall be adulteresses.

¹⁴ I shall not visit on your daughters, when they do fornication, and on your wives, when they do adultery; for they lived with whores, and made sacrifice with men turned into women’s conditions. And the people that understandeth not, shall be beaten.

¹⁵ If thou, Israel, doest fornication, namely Judah, trespass not; and do not ye enter into Gilgal, and go ye not into Bethaven, neither swear ye, The Lord liveth.

¹⁶ For as a wild cow Israel bowed away; now the Lord shall feed them as a lamb in broadness.

¹⁷ Ephraim[4] is the partner of idols, leave thou him;

¹⁸ the feast of them is parted. By fornication they did fornication, the defenders thereof loved to bring shame.

¹⁹ The spirit bound him in his wings, and they shall be ashamed of their sacrifices.