Verse 14

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; And the people that does not understand will come to ruin.

Referenced Verses

  • Hos 4:1 : 1 Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; For Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, Nor goodness, Nor knowledge of God in the land.
  • Hos 4:5-6 : 5 You will stumble in the day, And the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your mother. 6 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 your God's law, I will also forget your children.
  • Hos 4:17 : 17 Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, And the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.
  • Rom 3:11 : 11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
  • 1 Cor 6:16 : 16 Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
  • Heb 12:8 : 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.
  • Deut 23:17 : 17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23-24 : 23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; 24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 15:12 : 12 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
  • 2 Kgs 23:7 : 7 He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
  • Prov 28:5 : 5 Evil men don't understand justice; But those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint.
  • Isa 44:18-20 : 18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand. 19 None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20 He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
  • Dan 12:10 : 10 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.