Hosea 4:16
For Israel has turned aside as a stubborn heifer, || Now YHWH feeds them as a lamb in a large place.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17Ephraim is joined to idols, leave him alone.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:33And I scatter you among nations, and have drawn out a sword after you, and your land has been a desolation, and your cities are a ruin.
Isaiah 5:17And lambs have fed according to their leading, || And sojourners consume wastelands of the fat ones.
Isaiah 22:18And your coverer covering, wrapping around, || Wraps you around, O babbler, || On a land of broad sides—there you die, || And there the chariots of your glory [are] the shame of the house of your lord.
Jeremiah 3:8And I see that for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery, I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce to her; and her treacherous sister Judah has not feared, and goes and commits fornication—she also.
Jeremiah 5:6Therefore a lion out of the forest has struck them, || A wolf of the deserts spoils them, || A leopard is watching over their cities, || Everyone who is going out of them is torn, || For their transgressions have been many, || Their backslidings have been mighty.
Jeremiah 8:5Why has this people of Jerusalem || Turned back—a continuous backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, || They have refused to turn back.
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 →