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, all of you 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

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood touches 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 every one that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

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

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest.

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

Therefore shall you fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother.

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 destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

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

As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

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

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

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 there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

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

For 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.

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

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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

My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to go astray, and they have gone a whoring from under 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 sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses 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

I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that does not understand shall fall.

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

Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not all of you unto Gilgal, neither go all of you up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives.

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

For Israel slides back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

17 to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him

Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

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

Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give all of you.

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

The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.