It was so, because the children of Yisra'el had sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Par`oh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
Hosea 4:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition My people [habitually] ask counsel of their [senseless] wood [idols], and their staff [of wood] gives them oracles and instructs them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray and they have played the harlot, withdrawing themselves from subjection to their God. American Standard Version (1901) My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, departing from under their God. Common English Bible My people take advice from a piece of wood, and their divining rod gives them predictions. A spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they have left God to follow other gods. Catholic Public Domain Version My people have inquired of their stave, and their staff has announced to them. For the spirit of fornication has deceived them, and they have been fornicating before their God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them, and they have committed fornication against their God. |
It was so, because the children of Yisra'el had sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Par`oh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
but have walked in the way of the kings of Yisra'el, and have made Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim to play the prostitute, like as the house of Ach'av did, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself:
Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
I have seen folly in the prophets of Shomron; they prophesied by Ba`al, and caused my people Yisra'el to err.
and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
For the king of Bavel stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the terafim, he looked in the liver.
Ashur can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy.*
Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don't know the LORD.
In the house of Yisra'el I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Efrayim. Yisra'el is defiled.
Don't rejoice, Yisra'el, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.'
then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molekh, from among their people.
If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: *I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;* he would be the prophet of this people.
Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
and it shall be to you for a tzitzit, that you may look on it, and remember all the mitzvot of the LORD, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;
The LORD said to Moshe, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
They said to him, Ask counsel, we pray you, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.