Hosea 4:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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  • Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
  • Isa 28:7 : 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be burdened with surfeiting, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day comes upon you unexpectedly.
  • Isa 5:12 : 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of his hands.
  • Prov 6:32 : 32 But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he who does it destroys his own soul.
  • Prov 23:27-35 : 27 For a prostitute is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit. 28 She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men. 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who linger long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine. 31 Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls smoothly. 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper. 33 Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast. 35 "They have struck me," you shall say, "and I was not hurt; they have beaten me, and I did not feel it; when shall I awake, I will seek it yet again."
  • Eccl 7:7 : 7 Surely oppression makes a wise man mad, and a bribe destroys the heart.
  • Rom 13:11-14 : 11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have gone astray under their God.

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  • 10 For they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase, because they have ceased taking heed to the LORD.

  • 5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • 12 My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have gone astray under their God.

  • 18 Their drink is sour; they have committed harlotry continually; her rulers dearly love dishonor.

  • 7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

  • 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

  • Isa 5:11-12
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    11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

    12 And the harp, and the viol, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of his hands.

  • 2 The threshing floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.

  • Prov 31:4-6
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    4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to crave strong drink.

    5 Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

    6 Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those of heavy hearts.

  • 4 They will not direct their deeds to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitution is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

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    30 Those who linger long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.

    31 Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls smoothly.

  • 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • 15 Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who puts the bottle to him, and makes him drunk also, that you may look on their nakedness!

  • 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

  • 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

  • 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

  • 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich through the abundance of her luxuries.

  • 39 No one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, The old is better.

  • 30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious, whorish woman;

  • 5 Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither stays at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all people:

  • 4 Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her sorceries.

  • 14 And Eli said to her, How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine from you.

  • 1 Then the LORD said to me, Go again, love a woman loved by her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.

  • 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

  • 20 Do not be among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of meat:

  • 26 For by means of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • 9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

  • 22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water:

  • 35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD;

  • 17 Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

  • 5 For their mother has played the harlot: she who conceived them has acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

  • 17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

  • 20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.

  • 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.

  • 21 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunk, but not with wine:

  • 15 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.

  • 9 Pause and wonder; cry out and cry: they are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

  • 32 But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • 17 You have also taken your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and committed whoredom with them,

  • 25 Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not stray in her paths.

  • Prov 9:4-5
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    4 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

    5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mixed.

  • 10 The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the grain is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.