Hosea 4

CLV(i) 1 Hear the word of Yahweh, sons of Israel! For Yahweh has a contention with the dwellers of the land, for there is no truth and there is no kindness and there is no knowledge of Elohim in the land." 2 Imprecation and dissimulation and murder and stealing and adultery breach forth in the land, and blood touches blood." 3 Therefore the land shall mourn, and every dweller in it shall be enfeebled with the field life, and with the moving animals on the ground, and with the flyers of the heavens; and even the fishes of the sea shall be gathered away." 4 Yea, a man must not be contending, and a man must not be correcting another. Yet My people are as those contending against a priest." 5 And you stumble in the day, and even the prophet stumbles with you at night, and I will still your mother." 6 My people shall be stilled because of failing knowledge, seeing that you reject knowledge. Then I am rejecting you from being a priest for Me, and as you are forgetting the law of your Elohim, I will forget your sons--even I." 7 According to their multitude, so they sin against Me; their glory into dishonor will I change;" 8 the sin approach of My people are they eating, and to their depravity are they lifting their soul." 9 And it comes to be as the people are, so is the priest. And I visit on them their ways, and their actions will I reverse to them." 10 And they shall eat and not be satisfied; they cause prostitution and shall not be breaching forth, for they forsake Yahweh, to observe prostitution, 11 and wine and grape juice shall take their heart. 12 My people at their wood are asking, and their stick is telling them, for the spirit of prostitution leads them astray, and they are committing prostitution away from under their Elohim." 13 On the summits of the mountains they are sacrificing, and on the hills they are fuming incense, under the oak and the white poplar and the overshadowing tree, and the terebinth, for good is its shade. Therefore your daughters shall commit prostitution." 14 I will not check over your daughters, seeing that they are committing prostitution, or over your daughters-in-law, seeing that they are committing adultery, for they, the men, are going apart with the prostitutes, and with the hallowed harlots they are sacrificing. And the people who are not understanding shall flounder." 15 If you, Israel, are committing prostitution, let not Judah be guilty, and you must not be entering Gilgal, and you must not be going up to Beth-aven, and you must not be swearing, as Yahweh is living." 16 For as a young cow is stubborn, so is Israel stubborn, now will Yahweh graze them as a he-lamb in a wide place." 17 Ephraim is joined to grief fetishes. Leave him alone! 18 Withdrawn is their grog; verily they cause prostitution; her shielders verily love dishonor. 19 The wind distresses her in its wings, and they shall be ashamed of their altars."