Hosea 4:9

And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their devices.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

In Context

8They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.

10And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in not observing his law.

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Cross References

Psalms 109:17But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.

Proverbs 11:31If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.

Isaiah 9:14And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day.

Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?

Jeremiah 23:11For the prophet and the priest are defiled: and in my house I have found their wickedness, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:10Moreover the Levites that went away far from me, when the children of Israel went astray, and have wandered from me after their idols, and have borne their iniquity:

Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:7-12

Grounds of God's Controversy with Israel; The Sins of the Priests and People. ( b. c. 758.) 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. 7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. 8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. 9 And there shall… Read the whole commentary →

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