If the righteous is rewarded on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
Hosea 4:9 - Tree of Life Version But it will be like people, like kohen. So 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 is rewarded on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
By the fruit of his mouth a man will be satisfied with good. The work of a man’s hands will reward him.
The iniquities of a wicked man will ensnare him. The cords of his sin will hold him down.
So it shall be: as with the people, so with the kohen, as with a servant, so with his master, as with a maid, so with her mistress, as with a buyer, so with the seller, as with a lender, so with the borrower, as with a creditor, so with the debtor.
Say to the righteous, he will be well, eating the fruit of their deeds.
The prophets prophesy falsely, the kohanim rule by their own authority, and My people love it this way! But what will you do in the end?”
For the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray after their idols, will bear their iniquity.
Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up My hand against them”—it is a declaration of Adonai. “They will bear their iniquity.
Then Adonai said to him: “Name him Jezreel for in yet a little while I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will destroy the kingdom of the house of Israel.
When I desire, I will chasten them, and peoples will gather against them when they are yoked to their two sins.
Ephraim is grazing on wind and pursuing the east wind. All day he multiplies lies and ruin: making a pact with Assyria, while carrying oil to Egypt.
Adonai also has a dispute with Judah: He will punish Jacob for his ways, repaying him for his deeds.
But they never admit in their heart that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them. They are right before My face.
Sacrifices are gifts for Me— should they sacrifice meat and then eat it? Adonai will not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sin— they will return to Egypt.
“All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I despised them. Because of their wicked practices, I will drive them out of My House. I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, He will punish their sin.
But My words and My decrees, which I commanded My servants the prophets—did they not overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said ‘As He determined, Adonai-Tzva’ot has dealt with us according to our ways and our deeds.’”
Leave them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”