Hosea 4:10-12
New International Reader's Version
10 “My people will eat.
But they will not have enough.
They will have sex with prostitutes.
But they will not have any children.
That’s because they have deserted me.
They have sex 11 with prostitutes.
They drink old wine and fresh wine.
Their drinking has destroyed their ability to understand.
12 My people ask a wooden statue of a god for advice.
They get answers from a stick of wood.
They are as unfaithful as prostitutes.
They are not faithful to their God.
Hosea 4:10-12
Lexham English Bible
10 They will eat and not be satisfied;
they will play the whore and not multiply,
because they have forsaken Yahweh to devote themselves to
11 whoredom.[a]
Wine and new wine take away the understanding.[b]
12 My people,
consult their wooden idols,[c]
and their divining rod gives them oracles;
because a spirit of whoredom led them astray,
and they played the whore from under their God.[d]
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:11 Literally “to watch over whoredom”
- Hosea 4:11 Literally “take away heart”
- Hosea 4:12 Literally “their wood”
- Hosea 4:12 That is, “they played the whore forsaking their God”; See Ezek 23:5
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