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 a word of YHWH, sons of Israel, For a strife [is] to YHWH with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, 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

Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery—have increased, And blood has touched against 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 the land mourns, And every dweller is weak in it, With the beast of the field, And with the bird of the heavens, And the fishes of the sea—they are removed.

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

Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And your people [are] as those striving with a priest.

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

And you have stumbled in the day, And a prophet has also stumbled with you in the night, And I have cut off 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 have been cut off for lack of knowledge, Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being priest to Me, And you forget the Law of your God—I forget your sons, I also!

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

According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, I change their glory into shame.

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

The sin of My people they eat, And to their iniquity lift up their soul.

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 it has been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.

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 have eaten, and are not satisfied, They have gone whoring, and do not increase, For they have left off taking heed to YHWH.

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

Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take 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 at its staff asks and its rod declares to it, For a spirit of whoredoms has caused to err, And they go 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

On tops of the mountains they sacrifice, And on the hills they make incense, Under oak, and poplar, and terebinth, For good [is] its shade.

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

Therefore your daughters commit whoredom, And your spouses commit adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And after your spouses when they commit adultery, For they with the harlots are separated, And with the whores they sacrifice, A people that does not understand kicks.

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 [are] a harlot, O Israel, Do not let Judah become guilty, And do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-Aven, Nor swear, YHWH 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 has turned aside as a stubborn heifer, Now YHWH feeds them as a lamb in a large place.

17 to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him

Ephraim is joined to idols, leave him alone.

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

Sour [is] their drink, They have gone whoring diligently, Her protectors have thoroughly loved shame.

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

Wind has distressed her with its wings, And they are ashamed of their sacrifices!”