He put away the illicit priests out of the land and removed all the idols that his ancestors had made.
Hosea 4:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with female attendants; thus a people without understanding comes to ruin. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for [the fathers and husbands] themselves go aside in order to be alone with women who prostitute themselves for gain, and they sacrifice at the altar with dedicated harlots [who surrender their chastity in honor of the goddess]. Therefore the people without understanding shall stumble and fall and come to ruin. American Standard Version (1901) I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown. Common English Bible I will not punish your daughters because they act like prostitutes, nor your daughters-in-law because they commit adultery; for the men themselves visit prostitutes, and offer sacrifices with consecrated workers at temples; so now the people without sense must come to ruin. Catholic Public Domain Version I will not send afflictions on your daughters, when they will commit fornication, nor on your spouses, when they will commit adultery, because you yourselves have associated with harlots and have offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and because the people who do not understand will be defeated. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I will not visit upon your daughters when they shell commit fornication, and upon your spouses when they shall commit adultery: because themselves conversed with harlots, and offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and the people that doth not understand shall be beaten. |
He put away the illicit priests out of the land and removed all the idols that his ancestors had made.
He broke down the houses of the illicit priests who were in the house of the Lord, where the women did weaving for Asherah.
The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.
Why do you seek further beatings? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is injured, and the whole heart faint.
When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.
The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. The shepherds also have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, to their own gain, one and all.
Many shall be purified, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked shall continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
Those who are wise understand these things; those who are discerning know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel, for the Lord has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty and no knowledge of God in the land.
Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.
they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and push the afflicted out of the way; father and son go in to the same young woman, so that my holy name is profaned;
Therefore thus says the Lord: Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be parceled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.”
Thus Israel yoked itself to the Baal of Peor, and the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel.
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word.
Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, “The two shall be one flesh.”
they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.
“None of the daughters of Israel shall serve in an illicit shrine; none of the sons of Israel shall serve in an illicit shrine.
If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.