< 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 mercy, 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 nought but swearing and breaking faith, 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 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the fowls of heaven; 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, neither let any 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 in the day, 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, I will also 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 feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their 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: and I will punish them for their ways, and will reward 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: because they have left off to take heed to 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 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
fornication and wine and new wine to take: take heart
12 My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredom hath caused 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 oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters commit whoredom, and your brides 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 commit whoredom, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for they themselves go apart with whores, and they sacrifice with the harlots: and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.
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, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither 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 Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will the LORD feed them as a lamb in a large place.
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; let him alone.
to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him
18 Their drink is become sour: they commit whoredom continually; her rulers dearly love 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

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