Hosea 4:11

The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

In Context

10And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have gone a-whoring, and shall by no means prosper: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.

12They asked counsel by means of signs, and they reported answer to them by their staffs: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.

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Cross References

Proverbs 6:32But the adulterer through want of sense procures destruction to his soul. 1

Proverbs 23:27For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; 1 And a strange well is narrow. 1

Isaiah 5:12For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.

Jeremiah 23:13And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless deeds; they prophesied by Baal, and led my people Israel astray.

Hosea 5:4They have not framed their counsels to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in them, and they have not known the Lord.

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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