Hosea 4

1 Listen to the word of the Lord, sons of Israel, for the Lord is judge of the inhabitants of the land. Yet there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is 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 Slander, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery have overflowed, and bloodshed has brought more bloodshed.

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 Because of this, the land will mourn, and all who dwell in it will languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air. And the fishes of the sea also will be gathered together.

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 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.

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

5 And you will be ruined on this day, and now the prophet will be ruined with you. In the night, I have made your mother to be silent.

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

6 My people have become silent because they had no knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I will drive you away; you do not perform the duties of the priesthood for me, and you have forgotten the law of your God, and so I will forget your sons.

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 According to the multitude of them, so have they sinned against me. I will change their glory into disgrace.

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

8 They will devour the sins of my people, and they will lift up their souls towards their iniquity.

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

9 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.

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 And they will eat and not be satisfied. They have been committing fornication, and they did not cease. Since they have abandoned the Lord, they will not be safeguarded.

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 Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, have taken away their heart.

fornication and wine and new wine to take: take heart

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.

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 have offered sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burnt incense on the hills, under the oak, and the poplar, and the terebinth tree, because its shadow was good; therefore, your daughters will commit fornication and your spouses will be adulteresses.

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 send afflictions on your daughters, when they will commit fornication, nor on your spouses, when they will commit adultery, because you yourselves have associated with harlots and have offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and because the people who do not understand will be defeated.

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 If you commit fornication, Israel, at least let Judah not commit offenses; and do not be willing to enter into Gilgal, nor to ascend to Bethaven, and neither should you swear, “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 has gone astray like a wanton heifer; so now the Lord will pasture them like a young lamb in a wide expanse.

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

17 Ephraim participates in idolatry, so send him away.

to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him

18 Their feasting has been set aside; they have committed fornication after fornication. They love to bring disgrace to their protectors.

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

19 The wind has fastened them to its wings, and they will be confounded because of their sacrifices.

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