Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become sour. They play the harlot continually. Her rulers dearly love shame.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.
Cross References
Exodus 23:8And thou shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight, and perverts the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.
1 Samuel 12:3Here I am. Witness against me before LORD, and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with i
Psalms 47:9The rulers of the peoples are gathered together [with] the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted.
Isaiah 1:21How the faithful city has become a harlot! She who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Ezekiel 16:15But thou trusted in thy beauty, and played the harlot because of thy renown, and poured out thy whoredoms on everyone who passed by; his it was.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:13-19
The Sins of the Priests and the People; Warning to Judah. ( b. c. 758.) 12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14 I will not punish… Read the whole commentary →