Hosea 4:16

For Israel has behaved stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. 1 How can Yahweh bring them to pasture like lambs in a meadow? 1

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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

15Though you, Israel, have committed adultery, 1 may Judah not become guilty. 1 Do not go to Gilgal, you people; 1 do not go up to Beth Aven, 1 and do not swear, saying, “As Yahweh lives.” 1

17Ephraim united himself with idols; 1 leave him alone. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:33I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out my sword and follow you. Your land will be abandoned, and your cities will be ruined.

Isaiah 5:17Then the sheep will feed as in their own pasture, and in the ruins, lambs will graze as foreigners. + 5:17 Some modern versions have and in the ruins of the rich, lambs will graze . 1

Isaiah 22:18He will surely wind you round and round, and toss you like a ball into a vast country. 1 There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be; you will be the shame of your master's house! 1

Jeremiah 3:8So I saw that, in the same way that faithless Israel had committed adultery and I had sent her away and had given a bill of divorce against her, her faithless sister Judah did not fear; she also went out and acted like a prostitute.

Jeremiah 5:6So a lion from a thicket will attack them. A wolf from the Arabah will ruin them. 1 A lurking panther will come against their cities. Anyone who goes outside his city will be torn apart. 1 For their transgressions increase. Their acts of faithlessness are unlimited. 1

Jeremiah 8:5Why has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in permanent faithlessness? 1 They hold on to treachery and refuse to repent. 1

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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