Hosea 4

1 Hear [the] word of Yahweh O people of Israel for a case at law [belongs] to Yahweh with [the] inhabitants of the land for there not [is] faithfulness and there not [is] covenant loyalty and there not [is] 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 deceiving and murdering and stealing and committing adultery people have broken out and blood blood they have touched.

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 There-fore - it will dry up the land and he will wither every [one who] dwells in it among [the] animal[s] of the field and among [the] bird[s] of the heavens and also [the] fish of the sea they will be removed.

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 Nevertheless anyone may not he bring a case and may not he reprove anyone and people your [is] like [those who] contend a priest.

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

5 And you will stumble the day and he will stumble also a prophet with you night and I will destroy mother your.

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

6 They have been destroyed people my because not knowledge for you knowledge you have rejected and I will reject you from serving as a priest me and you have forgotten [the] law of God your I will forget children your also I.

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 increased they so they sinned to me glory their for shame I will exchange.

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

8 [the] sin of People my they eat and to iniquity their they lift up desire its.

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

9 And it will be as the people as the priest and I will visit on him ways his and deeds his I will repay to him.

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 they will be satisfied they will prostitute themselves and not they will increase for Yahweh they have forsaken to keep.

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 Prostitution and wine and new wine it takes away [the] heart.

fornication and wine and new wine to take: take heart

12 People my by wood his he enquires and stick his it tells to him for a spirit of prostitution it has misled and they have prostituted themselves from under God their.

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 On [the] tops of the mountains they sacrifice and on the hills they make smoke under oak and poplar and terebinth for [is] good shade its there-fore they prostitute themselves daughters your and brides your they 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 Not I will visit [judgment] on daughters your if they prostitute themselves and on brides your if they commit adultery for they [masc] with the prostitutes they go apart and with the cult prostitutes they sacrifice and a people [which] not it understands it will be ruined.

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 [are] prostituting yourself you O Israel may not it become guilty Judah and may not you go Gilgal and may not you go up Beth Aven and may not you swear [by] [the] life of Yahweh.

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 a heifer stubborn it is stubborn Israel now he will pasture them Yahweh like a lamb in roomy place.

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

17 [is] joined of Idols Ephraim leave alone him.

to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him

18 It has come to an end drink their certainly they have prostituted themselves they have loved love shame shields its.

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

19 It has wrapped a wind it in wings its so they may be ashamed from sacrifices their.

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