Hosea 4

1 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

Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord [has] a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

2 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

Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.

3 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

Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:

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

that neither any one may plead, nor any one reprove [another]; but my people are as a priest spoken against.

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

Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with thee shall fall: I have compared thy mother unto night.

6 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

My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and [as] thou has forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

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

According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame.

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

They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their hearts on their iniquities.

9 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

And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.

10 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

And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have gone a-whoring, and shall by no means prosper: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.

11 fornication and wine and new wine to take: take heart

The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.

12 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

They asked counsel by [means of] signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.

13 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

They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.

14 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

And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.

15 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

But thou, O Israel, be not ignorant, and go ye not, [men of] Juda, to Galgala; and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.

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

For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

17 to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him

Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling-blocks in his own way.

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

He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.

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

Thou art a blast of wind in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.