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Hosea 4:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

That's why I will punish the people for their deeds, just as I will punish you priests.

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Prophets give their messages in the name of a false god, my priests don't want to serve me, and you—my own people— like it this way! But on the day of disaster, where will you turn for help?

including ordinary people and priests, slaves and slave owners, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, the rich and the poor.

Stay away from those Pharisees! They are like blind people leading other blind people, and all of them will fall into a ditch.”

But my warnings and my words spoken by the prophets caught up with your ancestors. So they turned back to me and said, “LORD All-Powerful, you have punished us for our sins, just as you had planned.”

You are brutal and corrupt, as were the men of Gibeah. But God remembers your sin, and you will be punished.

You sacrifice your best animals and eat the sacrificial meals, but I, the LORD, refuse your offerings. I will remember your sins and punish you. Then you will return to Egypt.

Then the LORD said, “Hosea, name your son Jezreel, because I will soon punish the descendants of King Jehu of Israel for the murders he committed in Jezreel Valley. I will destroy his kingdom,

Tell those who obey God, “You're very fortunate— you will be rewarded for what you have done.”

Sinners are trapped and caught by their own evil deeds.

We are rewarded or punished for what we say and do.

No one realizes that I have seen their sins surround them like a flood.

Israel, I first began to hate you because you did evil at Gilgal. Now I will chase you out of my house. No longer will I love you; your leaders betrayed me.

Your sins have doubled, and you are rebellious. Now I have decided to send nations to attack and put you in chains.

The LORD also brings charges against the people of Judah, the descendants of Jacob. He will punish them for what they have done.

If good people are rewarded here on this earth, all who are cruel and mean will surely be punished.

Some of the Levites turned their backs on me and joined the other people of Israel in worshipping idols. So these Levites must be punished!

But because these Levites served the people of Israel when they worshipped idols, I, the LORD God, promise that the Levites will be punished. They did not stop the Israelites from sinning,

Even before Jacob was born, he cheated his brother, and when he grew up, he fought against God.




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