Hosea 4:9

And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.

Young's Literal Translation

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

8The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.

10And they have eaten, and are not satisfied, They have gone a-whoring, and increase not, For they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.

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Cross References

Psalms 109:17And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him.

Proverbs 11:31Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!

Isaiah 9:14And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed — the same day,

Jeremiah 5:31The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved [it] so, And what do they at its latter end?

Jeremiah 23:11For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Ezekiel 44:10but — the Levites who have gone far off from me, in the wandering of Israel when they went astray from Me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity.

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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