Hosea 4:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Mic 3:11 : 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
  • Exod 23:8 : 8 And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.
  • Deut 16:19 : 19 You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe: for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
  • Deut 32:32-33 : 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
  • 1 Sam 8:3 : 3 But his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
  • 1 Sam 12:3-4 : 3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes with it? and I will restore it to you. 4 And they said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from any man's hand.
  • 2 Kgs 17:7-9 : 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods. 8 And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortified city. 10 They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger. 12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing. 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 14 Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God. 15 They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; they followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves, and went after the nations that were around them, although the LORD had commanded them not to do like them. 16 They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
  • Ps 47:9 : 9 The princes of the people have gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted.
  • Prov 30:15-16 : 15 The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, indeed four that say not, It is enough: 16 The grave, and the barren womb, the earth that is never filled with water, and the fire that never says, It is enough.
  • Isa 1:21-22 : 21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water:
  • Jer 2:21 : 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • Hos 4:10 : 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.
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

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    3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me: for now, O Ephraim, you commit whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

    4They 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.

  • Hos 2:4-5
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    4And I will not have mercy on her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.

    5For 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.

  • Hos 4:10-13
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    10For they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase, because they have ceased taking heed to the LORD.

    11Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.

    12My 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.

    13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shade thereof is good. Therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

  • Ezek 23:17
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    17And 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.

  • Rev 18:3
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    3For 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.

  • Ezek 23:7-9
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    7Thus she committed her harlotries with them, with all the choice men of Assyria, and with all on whom she lusted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

    8She did not leave her harlotries brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their harlotry upon her.

    9Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she lusted.

  • Hos 4:17
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    17Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.

  • Jer 3:9
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    9And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

  • Ezek 16:32-33
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    32But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

    33They give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, that they may come to you on every side for your whoredom.

  • Amos 2:8
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    8They lie down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

  • Ezek 23:30
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    30I will do these things to you, because you have gone a whoring after the heathen, and because you are polluted with their idols.

  • Jer 5:7
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    7How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

  • Rev 17:2
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    2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

  • Ezek 16:28
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    28You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.

  • Ps 106:39
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    39Thus they were defiled with their own works, and played the harlot with their own inventions.

  • Isa 1:22
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    22Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water:

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    7As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: therefore I will turn their glory into shame.

    8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity.

  • Ezek 23:19-20
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    19Yet she multiplied her harlotries, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, when she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

    20For she lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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    15What 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.

  • Ezek 22:10
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    10In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness: in you they have humbled her who was set apart for impurity.

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    3And they committed harlotry in Egypt; they committed harlotry in their youth: there their breasts were pressed, and there they bruised the nipples of their virginity.

  • Ezek 16:36
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    36Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you gave to them:

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    10I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

  • Hos 7:14
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    14And 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.

  • Hos 3:1
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    1Then 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.

  • Hab 2:15
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    15Woe 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!

  • Ezek 16:26
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    26You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

  • Hos 9:2
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    2The threshing floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Ezek 23:43
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    43Then said I to her who was old in adulteries, Will they now commit harlotries with her, and she with them?

  • Isa 24:9
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    9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

  • Nah 3:4
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    4Because 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.

  • Zeph 3:4
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    4Her prophets are light and treacherous people: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

  • Ezek 23:37
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    37That they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire, to devour them.

  • Jer 3:2
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    2Lift up your eyes to the high places and see where you have not been violated. On the roads you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and your wickedness.

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    5And Aholah played the harlot while she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbors,

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    9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

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    7But 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.

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    15Though you, Israel, play the harlot, do not let Judah offend; do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Bethaven, nor swear, 'As the LORD lives.'