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Hosea 4:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

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The money of the offerings for error and the sin-offerings was not taken into the house of the Lord; it was the priests'.

He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

Of David. To you, O Lord, my soul is lifted up.

Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?

When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:

You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.

O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

And the same offering is to be given by that one of his sons who takes his place as priest; by an order for ever, all of it is to be burned before the Lord.

The priest by whom it is offered for sin, is to take it for his food in a holy place, in the open space of the Tent of meeting.

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.

For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?




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