The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 4:7 (NIV)

The more priests there were,
the more they sinned against me;
they exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 4:8 (NIV)

They feed on the sins of my people
and relish their wickedness.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 4:11 (NIV)

to prostitution;
old wine and new wine
take away their understanding.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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!

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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!”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 4:16 (NIV)

The Israelites are stubborn,
like a stubborn heifer.
How then can the Lord pasture them
like lambs in a meadow?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 4:17 (NIV)

Ephraim is joined to idols;
leave him alone!

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 4:18 (NIV)

Even when their drinks are gone,
they continue their prostitution;
their rulers dearly love shameful ways.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 4:19 (NIV)

A whirlwind will sweep them away,
and their sacrifices will bring them shame.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 5:2 (NIV)

The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter.
I will discipline all of them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 5:5 (NIV)

Israel’s arrogance testifies against them;
the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin;
Judah also stumbles with them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

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