Hosea 4:18
When their drink is sour, + 4:18 i.e., when intoxicated 1 they have committed whoredom; 1 her mogenim (shields, rulers) deeply love kalon (ignominy, shame). 1
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Exodus 23:8And thou shalt take no shochad (bribe, gift); for the shochad blindeth the seeing, and perverteth the words of the tzaddikim.
Deuteronomy 32:32For their gefen is of the gefen of Sodom, 1 and of the fields of Amora (Gomorrah); 1 their grapes are grapes of poison, 1 their clusters are bitter; 1
1 Samuel 12:3Hineni (here I am); testify against me before Hashem, and before His Moshiach. Whose shor (ox) have I taken? Or whose chamor (donkey) have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose yad have I accepted any kofer to blind mine eyes therewith? And I will restitution make to you.
Psalms 47:9Elohim reigneth over the Goyim; 1 Elohim sitteth upon the Kisse Kadsho. 1
Isaiah 1:21How is the Kiryah Ne'emanah (Faithful City, i.e., Yerushalayim) become a zonah (harlot)! 1 It was full of mishpat; 1 tzedek lodged in it; 1 but now murderers. 1
Ezekiel 16:15But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the zonah because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy harlotry on every one that passed by; his it became.
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 →