If the righteous will be repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and sinful.
Hosea 4:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The same judgement will happen to both people and priests. I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And it shall be: Like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their doings. American Standard Version (1901) And it shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings. Common English Bible The priest will be just like the people; I will punish them for their ways, and judge them for their deeds. Catholic Public Domain Version And, just as it is with the people, so will it be with the priest; and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them for their intentions. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their devices. |
If the righteous will be repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and sinful.
A person will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the work of a person’s hands will reward him.
A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him; he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.
people and priest alike, servant and master, female servant and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
Tell the righteous that it will go well for them, for they will eat the fruit of their labour.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?
Surely the Levites who wandered away from me when Israel went astray, and who strayed from me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.
Because they ministered to the house of Israel before their idols and became a sinful stumbling block to them, therefore I swore an oath against them’ #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God #– #‘that they would bear the consequences of their iniquity.
Then the Lord said to him: Name him Jezreel, , for in a little while I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu and put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
I will discipline them at my discretion; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double iniquity.
The Lord also has a dispute with Judah. He is about to punish Jacob according to his conduct; he will repay him based on his actions.
In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and as an adult he wrestled with God.
But they never consider that I remember all their evil. Now their actions are all around them; they are right in front of my face.
Though they offer sacrificial gifts , and eat the flesh, the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt.
All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my house because of their evil, wicked actions. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.
But didn’t my words and my statutes that I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? ” ’ So the people repented and said, ‘As the Lord of Armies decided to deal with us for our ways and our deeds, so he has dealt with us.’
Leave them alone! They are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.’