Hosea 4:19
They are folded in the skirts of the wind; they will be shamed because of their offerings.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
In Context
18Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.
Cross References
Isaiah 1:29For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.
Jeremiah 2:26As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;
Jeremiah 3:24But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Jeremiah 17:13O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
Hosea 10:6And they will take it to Assyria and give it to the great king; shame will come on Ephraim, and Israel will be shamed because of its image.
Hosea 12:1\11:12\The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...
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 →