Hosea 4:10
They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned listening to the LORD.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
11Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Proverbs 13:25The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
Jeremiah 9:12Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Ezekiel 18:24“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
Hosea 9:11As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
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 →