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 LORD’s word, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, 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

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

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 will mourn, and everyone who dwells in it will waste away, with all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.

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 bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.

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

You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble 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 may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s Torah, 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 multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

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

They feed on the sin of my people, and 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

It will be like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

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

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned listening to the LORD.

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

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

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 consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to 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 on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides 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 play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

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 prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As 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 has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will the LORD feed them like a lamb in a meadow?

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

Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

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

The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.