Hosea 4:12 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹² My people consult a wooden idol, and a diviner’s rod speaks to them. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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

¹² 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)

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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.

Hosea 4:12 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 17:7

All this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshipped other gods

2 Chronicles 21:13

But you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and you have led Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab did. You have also murdered your own brothers, members of your own family, men who were better than you.

Psalm 106:39

They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.

Psalm 73:27

Those who are far from you will perish; you destroy all who are unfaithful to you.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.

Jeremiah 2:27

They say to wood, “You are my father,” and to stone, “You gave me birth.” They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, “Come and save us!”

Jeremiah 23:13

‘Among the prophets of Samaria I saw this repulsive thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.

Ezekiel 20:32

‘ “You say, ‘We want to be like the nations, like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone.’ But what you have in mind will never happen.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: he will cast lots with arrows, he will consult his idols, he will examine the liver.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say “Our gods” to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion.’

Hosea 5:4

‘Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the Lord.

Hosea 6:10

I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: there Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, Israel; do not be jubilant like the other nations. For you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing-floor.

Leviticus 17:7

They must no longer offer any of their sacrifices to the goat idols to whom they prostitute themselves. This is to be a lasting ordinance for them and for the generations to come.”

Leviticus 20:5

I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek.

Micah 2:11

If a liar and deceiver comes and says, “I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,” that would be just the prophet for this people!

Habakkuk 2:19

Woe to him who says to wood, “Come to life!” Or to lifeless stone, “Wake up!” Can it give guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it.’

Numbers 15:39

You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the Lord said to Moses: ‘You are going to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.

Judges 18:5

Then they said to him, ‘Please enquire of God to learn whether our journey will be successful.’