Hosea 4:18
Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by fornication: they that should have protected them have loved to bring shame upon them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
17Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone.
19The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall be confounded because of their sacrifices.
Cross References
Exodus 23:8Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.
Deuteronomy 32:32Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.
1 Samuel 12:3Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: If I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.
Psalms 47:9God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.
Isaiah 1:21How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.
Ezekiel 16:15But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be 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 →