Hosea 4:17

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Hosea 4:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’

16 For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!

18 When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.

19 The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.

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Hosea 11:2

But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.

Hosea 13:2

Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”

Hosea 4:4

But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.

Psalms 81:12

So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

Matthew 15:14

Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Revelation 22:11

Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”