Hosea 4:4 - Tree of Life Version Yet let no one dispute and let no one argue. Your people are like a kohen who makes quarrels. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove [another–do not waste your time in mutual recriminations], for with you is My contention, O priest. American Standard Version (1901) Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. Common English Bible Yet let no one protest, and let no one complain. Listen, priest, I am angry with your people. Catholic Public Domain Version So, truly, let each and every one not judge, and let no man be accused, for your people are just like those who speak against the priesthood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But yet let not any man judge: and let not a man be rebuked: for thy people are as they that contradict the priest. |
Then they said: “Come, let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely Torah from the kohen will not be lost, nor will counsel from the wise, nor will the word from the prophet. Come, let’s strike at him with the tongue, and pay no attention to any of his words.”
I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth. You will be mute and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.
They despise one who reproves at the gate, so they detest one who speaks with integrity.
Therefore the prudent keep silent at such a time —for it is a distressful time.
One’s beloved—the one burning incense for him—will lift him up to carry the bones out of the house, and he will say to one in the innermost recess of the house: “Is anyone else still with you?” And he will say: “No one.” Then he will say, “Hush! For we must not mention the Name of Adonai.”
The man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the kohen who stands to serve there before Adonai your God, or to the judge, that man must die. So you are to purge the evil from Israel.