Hosea 4:18
Sour [is] their drink, || They have gone whoring diligently, || Her protectors have thoroughly loved shame.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17Ephraim is joined to idols, leave him alone.
19Wind has distressed her with its wings, || And they are ashamed of their sacrifices!”
Cross References
Exodus 23:8And you do not take a bribe, for the bribe binds the open-[eyed] and perverts the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, || And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes [are] grapes of gall—They have bitter clusters;
1 Samuel 12:3Behold, here I [am]; testify against me before YHWH, and before His anointed; whose ox have I taken, and whose donkey have I taken, and whom have I oppressed; whom have I bruised, and of whose hand have I taken a ransom, and hide my eyes with it? And I restore [it] to you.”
Psalms 47:9Nobles of peoples have been gathered, || [With] the people of the God of Abraham, || For the shields of earth [are] to God, || Greatly has He been exalted!
Isaiah 1:21How has a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it [with] judgment, || Righteousness lodges in it—now murderers.
Ezekiel 16:15And you trust in your beauty, || And go whoring because of your renown, || And pour out your whoredoms on everyone passing by—to him [that would have] it.
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 →