Hosea 4:11

prostitution. Old and new wine take away the understanding.

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

In Context

10They will eat and not be satisfied, they will sleep around but stay childless, because they have abandoned the Lord to give themselves to

12My own people ask counsel of a piece of wood! A stick gives them advice! For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray, they commit adultery against their God.

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Cross References

Hosea 5:4Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of prostitution is within them, they do not know the Lord.

Luke 21:34Be on your guard or your minds will become dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and ‘that day’ will close on you suddenly like a trap.

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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