Hosea 4

1 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel; for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; because there is no truth, nor kindness, 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 There is false swearing, and lying, and murdering, and stealing, and committing adultery: they break the bounds, and blood toucheth on 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 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the heaven; yea, also the fishes of the sea shall perish.

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, let no man reprove another: and thy people are contentious equally with the priest.

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

5 Therefore shalt thou stumble in the daytime, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the 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; because thou hast rejected knowledge, so will I also reject thee, that thou shalt not be a priest to me; and as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, so will I myself also 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 The more they increased, the more did they sin against me: therefore will I 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 The sin-offering of my people do they eat, and for their iniquity doth the soul of each one of them long.

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

9 Therefore shall the same befall both people and priest: and I will punish every one of them for his ways, and recompense every one for his 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 will eat, and shall not be satisfied; they will commit lewdness, and they shall not increase; because the Lord have they forsaken [not] keeping [his law].

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 Lewdness 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 stick of wood, and their staff shall tell them [the future]: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they are gone astray unfaithful to 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 Upon the tops of the mountains do they sacrifice, and upon the hills burn they incense, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because their shadow is good: therefore will your daughters play the harlot, and your daughter-in-law will 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 cannot inflict punishment on your daughters when they play the harlot, nor on your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for they themselves associate with lewd women, and with harlots do they sacrifice: and so doth the people that doth not understand stumble.

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 Yet though thou play the harlot, O Israel, let not Judah offend: and come not ye unto Gilgal, nor go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As the Lord 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 like an untamable cow is Israel disobedient: now would the Lord have fed them as a sheep 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 bound to idols: let him alone.

to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him

18 Their drinking bout will come to an end: while they are so often guilty of lewdness, their rulers love, prepare themselves but shame.

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

19 The wind seizeth fast on them with 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