Hosea 4:18

Legacy Standard Bible

Their drink gone; They play the harlot continually; Their rulers dearly love disgrace.

Cross References

Genesis 38:24

Now it happened about three months later that it was told to Judah saying, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the harlot, and behold, she is also with child by harlotry.” Then Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

Psalm 47:9

The nobles of the peoples have assembled themselves with the people of the God of Abraham, For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.

Exodus 23:8

“And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.

Jeremiah 2:21

“Yet I planted you a choice vine, A completely true seed. How then have you turned yourself before Me Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

Ezekiel 16:15

“But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your name, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing.

Hosea 4:10

They will eat, but not be satisfied; They will play the harlot, but not break forth in number, Because they have forsaken Yahweh to keep harlotry.

Hosea 4:2

There is swearing of oaths, deception, murder, stealing, and adultery. They break forth in violence so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 9:10

¶I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved.

Amos 5:12

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are mighty, You who distress the righteous and take bribes And turn aside the needy in the gate.

Micah 3:11

Her heads pronounce judgment for a bribe, And her priests instruct for a price, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on Yahweh saying, “Is not Yahweh in our midst? Evil will not come upon us.”

Micah 7:3

Concerning evil, both hands do it well. The prince asks, also the judge, for a payment, And a great man speaks the craving of his soul; So they weave it together.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not distort justice; you shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after greedy gain and took bribes and caused justice to turn aside.