Hosea 4:18
Their feasting has been set aside; they have committed fornication after fornication. They love to bring disgrace to their protectors.
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In The King James Version
In Context
17Ephraim participates in idolatry, so send him away.
19The wind has fastened them to its wings, and they will be confounded because of their sacrifices.
Cross References
Exodus 23:8Neither shall you accept bribes, which blind even the prudent and subvert the words of the just.
Deuteronomy 32:32Their vines are of the vines of Sodom, but from the suburbs of Gomorrah. Their grapes are the grapes of gall, and their grape clusters are most bitter.
1 Samuel 12:3Speak about me before the Lord, and before his Christ, as to whether I have taken anyone’s ox or donkey, or whether I have falsely accused anyone, or whether I have oppressed anyone, or whether I have accepted a bribe from the hand of anyone, and I will repudiate the same, this day, and I will restore it to you.”
Psalms 47:9As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God. God has founded it in eternity.
Isaiah 1:21How has the faithful city, full of judgment, become a harlot? Justice lived in her, but now murderers.
Ezekiel 16:15But, having confidence in your own beauty, you fornicated in your fame. And you presented your fornication to every passer-by, so as to become his.
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 →