Hosea 4:16

For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

In Context

15But thou, Israel, be not ignorant, and go ye not, men of Judah, to Gilgal; and go not up to the house of Aven, and swear not by the living Lord.

17Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling blocks in his own way.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:33And I will scatter you among the nations, and the sword shall come upon you and consume you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be desolate.

Isaiah 5:17And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.

Isaiah 22:18and will cast thee into a great and unmeasured land, and there thou shalt die: and he will bring thy fair chariot to shame, and the house of thy prince to be trodden down.

Jeremiah 3:8And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a bill of divorcement), yet faithless Judah feared not, but went and herself also committed fornication.

Jeremiah 5:6Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to their houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.

Jeremiah 8:5Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?

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 →

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