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Hosea 4:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will not punish your daughters when they act promiscuously or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go off with prostitutes and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes. People without discernment are doomed.

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Hear the word of the  Lord,  people of Israel, for the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land: There is no truth,  no faithful love, and no knowledge of God  in the land!


But if you are without discipline #– #which all receive   #– #then you are illegitimate children and not sons.


They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because  of the hardness of their hearts.


Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.   ,


There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.


Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to   my word.


Let whoever is wise  understand these things, and whoever is insightful recognise them. For the ways of the  Lord are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.


Ephraim is attached to idols; leave him alone!


Many will be purified,  cleansed, and refined,  but the wicked will act wickedly;  none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.


These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own profit.


Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep on rebelling? The whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick.


The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the  Lord understand everything.


He also tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes  that were in the Lord’s temple, in which the women were weaving tapestries  for Asherah.


He banished the male cult prostitutes  from the land and removed all of the idols that his ancestors had made.


‘No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.


Their actions do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of promiscuity is among them, and they do not know the  Lord.


They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.


Therefore, this is what the Lord says: Your wife will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided up with a measuring line. You yourself will die on pagan   soil, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.


So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor,  and the Lord’s anger burned against Israel.


When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker  will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.





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