Hosea 4

1 Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!

to hear: hear word LORD son: descendant/people Israel for strife to/for LORD with to dwell [the] land: country/planet for nothing truth: faithful and nothing kindness and nothing knowledge God in/on/with land: country/planet

2 Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

to swear and to deceive and to murder and to steal and to commit adultery to break through and blood in/on/with blood to touch

3 Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.

upon so to mourn [the] land: country/planet and to weaken all to dwell in/on/with her in/on/with living thing [the] land: country and in/on/with bird [the] heaven and also fish [the] sea to gather

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

surely man: anyone not to contend and not to rebuke man: anyone and people your like/as to contend priest

5 You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—

and to stumble [the] day and to stumble also prophet with you night and to cease mother your

6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

to cease people my from without [the] knowledge for you(m. s.) [the] knowledge to reject and to reject you from to minister to/for me and to forget instruction God your to forget son: child your also I

7 The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.

like/as to multiply they so to sin to/for me glory their in/on/with dishonor to change

8 They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.

sin people my to eat and to(wards) iniquity: crime their to lift: trust soul: appetite his

9 And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.

and to be like/as people like/as priest and to reckon: punish upon him way: conduct his and deed his to return: pay to/for him

10 They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.

and to eat and not to satisfy to fornicate and not to break through for [obj] LORD to leave: forsake to/for to keep: look at

11 Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

fornication and wine and new wine to take: take heart

12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

people my in/on/with tree: wood his to ask and rod his to tell to/for him for spirit fornication to go astray and to fornicate from underneath: instead God their

13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

upon head: top [the] mountain: mount to sacrifice and upon [the] hill to offer: offer underneath: under oak and poplar and oak for pleasant shadow her upon so to fornicate daughter your and daughter-in-law: bride your to commit adultery

14 I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

not to reckon: punish upon daughter your for to fornicate and upon daughter-in-law: bride your for to commit adultery for they(masc.) with [the] to fornicate to separate and with [the] cult prostitute to sacrifice and people not to understand to ruin

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!’

if to fornicate you(m. s.) Israel not be guilty Judah and not to come (in): come [the] Gilgal and not to ascend: rise Beth-aven Beth-aven and not to swear alive LORD

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

for like/as heifer to rebel to rebel Israel now to pasture them LORD like/as lamb in/on/with broad

17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!

to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him

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

to turn aside: depart liquor their to fornicate to fornicate to love: lover to love: lover dishonor shield her

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

to constrain spirit: breath [obj] her in/on/with wing her and be ashamed from sacrifice their