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Hosea 4:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Their food won't satisfy, and having sex at pagan shrines won't produce children. My people have rebelled

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After the death of Jehoiada the priest, the leaders of Judah went to Joash and talked him into doing what they wanted.

When the LORD punishes the wicked, he will punish everyone else who lives a crooked life. Pray for peace in Israel!

They tell deceitful lies, and they don't have the sense to live right.

If you live right, you will have plenty to eat; if you don't live right, you will go away empty.

but you decided to obey me and do the right thing by setting your Hebrew slaves completely free. You even went to my temple, and in my name you made an agreement to set them free. But you have abused my name, because you broke your agreement and forced your former slaves back into slavery.

I said to the LORD, “None of us can understand why the land has become like an uncrossable desert. Won't you explain why?”

But when good people start sinning and doing disgusting things, will they live? No! All their good deeds will be forgotten, and they will be put to death because of their sins.

Some of your own people tell lies, so that others will be put to death. Some of you eat meat sacrificed to idols at local shrines, and others never stop doing vulgar things.

But I won't punish them. You men are to blame, because you go to prostitutes and offer sacrifices with them at pagan shrines. Your own foolishness will lead to your ruin.

Everyone burns with desire— they are like coals in an oven, ready to burst into flames.

You will have such a shortage of bread, that ten women will be able to bake their bread in the same oven. Each of you will get only a few crumbs, and you will go hungry.

You will eat, but still be hungry; you will store up goods, but lose everything— I, the LORD, will let it all be captured in war.

Nothing will remain of anyone who has turned away and rejected me.

You harvest less than you plant, you never have enough to eat or drink, your clothes don't keep you warm, and your wages are stored in bags full of holes.




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