Hosea 4:17 Cross References - LEB

¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

¹² So I let them* go in the stubbornness of their heart; they walked in their counsels.

⁴ Yet, let no one contend, and let no one accuse, for with you, O priest, is my contention.*

² When I called* them, they went from my face.* They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols.

¹ Ephraim herds the wind* and is pursuing the east wind all day long; he multiplies deception and violence and he* _⌊makes a treaty with Assyria_⌋,* and oil is brought to Egypt.

² And now they sin again, and they make for themselves a molten idol, idols from their silver metal according to their understanding, all of them the work of skilled craftsmen. To these they say, "Sacrifice!" People are kissing bull calves.

¹⁴ Let* them! They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."

¹¹ The one who does evil, let him do evil still, and the defiled, let him be defiled still, and the righteous, let him practice righteousness still, and the holy, let him be holy still."