Hosea 4:18
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Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.
In other translations
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Micah 3:11The 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.Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
- Proverbs 30:15-1615 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: 16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.15 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’: 16 Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’
- Hosea 4:10For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 12:3-43 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. 4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man’s hand.3 Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.” 4 “You have not wronged us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”
- Exodus 23:8And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
- Micah 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
- Jeremiah 2:21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
- Hosea 4:2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- 1 Samuel 8:3And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.
- Deuteronomy 32:32-3332 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.32 But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter. 33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
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