The Book of Hosea! verse by verse...

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Hosea 4:6 (KJV) My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

 

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Hos 4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against Me. I will change their glory into shame.

 

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Hosea 4:8 (KJV) They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

 

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Hosea 4:9 (KJV) And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

 

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Hosea 4:10 (KJV) For 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.

 

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Hosea 4:11) 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

 

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Hosea 4:12 (KJV) My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

 

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Hosea 4:13 (KJV) They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

 

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Hosea 4:14 (KJV) I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with harlots, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

 

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Hosea 4:15 (KJV) Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

 

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Hosea 4:16 (KJV) For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

 

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Hosea 4:17 (KJV) Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

 

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Hosea 4:18 (KJV) Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

 

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Hos 4:19 They are folded in the skirts of the wind; they will be shamed because of their offerings.

 

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Hosea 5:1
1 "Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen, O royal house! This judgment is against you: You have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

 

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Hosea 5:2
2 The rebels are deep in slaughter, I will discipline all of them.

 

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Hosea 5:3
3 I know all about Ephraim; Israel is not hidden from me. Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution; Israel is corrupt.

 

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Hosea 5:4
4 "Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the LORD.

 

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Hosea 5:5
5 Israel's arrogance testifies against them; the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin; Judah also stumbles with them.

 

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Hosea 5:6 (KJV) They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.