Hosea 4:8

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 6:26 : 26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernac of the congregation.
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
  • Mal 1:10 : 10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • Lev 7:6-7 : 6 Every ma among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy. 7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
  • Ps 24:4 : 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
  • Ps 25:1 : 1 A alm of David. Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
  • Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
  • Ezek 14:7 : 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

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

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

    10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit wredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

  • 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

  • 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

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    2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

    3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

  • 9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Hos 7:2-3
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    2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

    3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

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

  • 13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

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

  • 12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their li let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

  • 18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

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    7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

    8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

  • 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

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    13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: tugh I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

    14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they wled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

  • 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

  • 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

  • 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • 7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

  • 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

  • 7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy 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.

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    8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

    9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

  • 18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

  • 39 And they that are ft of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

  • 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

  • 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

  • 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

  • 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

  • 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

  • 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

  • 30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

  • 21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

  • 5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

  • 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • 8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

  • 19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

  • 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

  • 11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

  • 31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

  • 16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • 6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

  • 6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

  • 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

  • 10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.