Hosea 4:9

And there shalbe like people, like Priest: for I wil visite their wayes vpon them, and reward them their deedes.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

In Context

8They eate vp the sinnes of my people, and lift vp their mindes in their iniquitie.

10For they shall eate, and not haue ynough: they shall commit adulterie, and shall not increase, because they haue left off to take heede to ye Lord.

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Cross References

Psalms 109:17As he loued cursing, so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not blessing, so shall it be farre from him.

Proverbs 11:31Beholde, the righteous shalbe recompensed in the earth: howe much more the wicked and the sinner?

Isaiah 9:14Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and taile, branche and rush in one day.

Jeremiah 5:31The Prophets prophesie lies, and ye Priests receiue giftes in their handes, and my people delite therein. What will ye then doe in the ende thereof?

Jeremiah 23:11For both the prophet and the Priest doe wickedly: and their wickednesse haue I found in mine House, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:10Neither yet ye Leuites that are gone backe from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray from thee after their idoles, but they shall beare their iniquitie.

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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