A complaint against the people and the priests of Israel.

Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord [a]hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:1 Because the people would not obey the admonitions of the Prophet, he citeth them before the judgment seat of God, against whom they chiefly offended, Isa. 7:13; Zech. 12:10; Mic. 6:1, 2.

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring, they break out, and [a]blood toucheth blood.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:2 In every place appeareth a liberty to most heinous vices, so that one followeth in the neck of another.

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