Hosea 4:1
Hear the LORD’s word, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
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1 Kings 22:19Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the LORD’s word. I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
Isaiah 1:10Hear the LORD’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Isaiah 3:13The LORD stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.
Isaiah 28:14Therefore hear the LORD’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 34:8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Isaiah 66:5Hear the LORD’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:1
Prophets were sent to be reprovers, to tell people of their faults, and to warn them of the judgments of God, to which by sin they exposed themselves; so the prophet is employed in this and the following chapters. He is here, as counsel for the King of kings, opening an indictment against the people of Israel, and labouring to convince them of sin, and of their misery and danger because of sin, that he might prevail with them to repent and reform. I. He shows them what were the grounds of God's controversy with… Read the whole commentary →