Hosea 4:12

Ami (My people) consult a piece of wood, 1 and their staff declareth unto them; 1 for the ruach zenunim hath caused them to err, 1 and they have played the zonah, forsaking Eloheihem. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11Zenut (prostitution, whoredom) and yayin and tirosh 1 take away the lev (understanding). 1

13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, 1 and burn incense upon the hills, 1 under oak and poplar and terebinth, 1 because the shade thereof is tov; 1 therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, 1 and your daughters-in-law shall commit ni'uf (adultery). 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 17:7And they shall no more offer their zevakhim unto goat demons, after whom they have gone a-whoring. This shall be a chukkat olam unto them throughout their dorot (generations).

Numbers 15:39And it shall be unto you for a tzitzit, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the mitzvot Hashem, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own lev and your own eyes, after which ye used to go a-whoring:

Judges 18:5And they said unto him, Ask counsel of Elohim, that we may have da'as of whether our derech shall succeed.

2 Chronicles 21:13But hast walked in the derech of the melachim of Yisroel, and hast made Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim to go a-whoring, like the whoredoms of the Bais Ach'av, and also hast murdered thy achim of Bais Avicha, which were better than thee;

Isaiah 44:18They have no da'as nor binah; for their eyes + 44:18 the eyes of the idol people are smeared over, that they cannot see; and their levavot, that they cannot understand.

Jeremiah 2:27Saying to Etz (wood): Thou art Avi; 1 and to Even (stone): Thou hast brought me forth; 1 for they have turned their back unto Me, 1 and not their face; 1 but in the time of their trouble they will say: 1 Arise, and hoshi'einu (save us). 1

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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