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Hosea 4:11-13
New Catholic Bible
Hosea 4:11-13
New Catholic Bible
11 to devote themselves to immorality.
Idolatry and Debauchery
Wine, both old and new,
deprives my people of understanding.
12 They consult a piece of wood for advice,
and their divining rod[a] provides the answers they seek.
For a spirit of promiscuity has led them astray,
and their immorality causes them to forsake their God.
13 They offer sacrifice on the mountaintops
and burn incense on the hills,
beneath oak and poplar and terebinth
because the shade they afford is pleasant.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:12 Piece of wood . . . divining rod: i.e., an idol used to foretell the future.