Hosea 4

1 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; for there is no truth, nor goodness, nor 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 Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, — they break out; and blood toucheth blood.

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 For this shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowl of the heavens, yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

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 Yet let no man strive, and let no man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

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

5 And thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy 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; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy 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 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.

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

8 They eat the sin of my people, and their soul longeth for their iniquity.

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

9 And it shall be as the people so the priest; and I will visit their ways upon them, and recompense to them their doings;

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 shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: for they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.

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 new wine take away the heart.

fornication and wine and new wine to take: take heart

12 My people ask counsel of their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms causeth [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under 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 upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because the shade thereof is good; therefore your daughters play the harlot and your daughters-in-law commit 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 play the harlot, nor your daughters-in-law for their committing adultery; for they themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with prostitutes: and the people that doth not understand shall 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 thou, Israel, play the harlot, let not Judah trespass; and come ye not unto Gilgal, neither go up to Beth-aven, nor swear [As] Jehovah liveth!

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 refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide [pasture].

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 Their drink is sour; they give themselves up to whoredom; her great men passionately love [their] shame.

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

19 The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

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