Hosea 5:4
Your actions stop you from coming back to your God for a spirit of prostitution is within you and you do not know the Lord.
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1 Samuel 2:12Eli's sons were worthless men who didn't have any time for the Lord
Psalms 36:1Evil speaks to the wicked, deep down in their minds, for in their eyes they have no need to respect God.
Jeremiah 9:6Everyone exploits each other, and in all their lies they don't want to know me, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 22:15Does it make you a king just because you have more cedar than anyone else? Your father had food and drink, didn't he? He ruled fairly and honestly, and he had a good life because of this.
Jeremiah 50:38A drought has hit her rivers, and they will dry up. For it's a country full of pagan images. These horrible idols drive their worshipers mad.
Hosea 4:6My people are dying because they don't know me. Because you have refused to know me, I refuse to accept you as my priests. You have forgotten my teachings, so I will forget your children.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 5:2-8
Charge against Israel and Judah; Judgments Threatened. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. 2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all. 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. 4 They will not frame their doings to turn… Read the whole commentary →