Yet let no one [a](A)find fault, and let no one rebuke;
For your people are like those who (B)contend with a priest.
So you will (C)stumble by day,
And the prophet also will stumble with you by night;
And I will destroy your (D)mother.
(E)My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Since you have (F)rejected knowledge,
I also will (G)reject you from being My priest.
Since you have (H)forgotten the (I)Law of your God,
I also will forget your children.

The more they (J)multiplied, the more they sinned against Me;
I will (K)change their glory into shame.
They (L)feed on the [b]sin of My people,
And (M)long for their wrongdoing.
And it will be, like people, (N)like priest;
So I will (O)punish them for their ways
And repay them for their deeds.
10 (P)They will eat, but not have enough;
They will (Q)play the prostitute, but not [c]increase,
Because they (R)gave up devoting themselves to the Lord.

11 [d]Infidelity, (S)wine, and new wine take away the [e]understanding.

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Notas al pie

  1. Hosea 4:4 Lit contend
  2. Hosea 4:8 Or sin offering
  3. Hosea 4:10 I.e., either in population or wealth
  4. Hosea 4:11 Or Prostitution
  5. Hosea 4:11 Lit heart

Yet let no one contend,
    and let none accuse,
    for with you is my contention, O priest.[a](A)
You shall stumble by day;
    the prophet also shall stumble with you by night,
    and I will destroy your mother.(B)
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge!
    Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I reject you from being a priest to me;
and since you have forgotten the law of your God,
    I also will forget your children.(C)

The more they increased,
    the more they sinned against me;
    they changed[b] their glory into shame.(D)
They feed on the sin of my people;
    they are greedy for their iniquity.
And it shall be like people, like priest;
    I will punish them for their ways
    and repay them for their deeds.(E)
10 They shall eat but not be satisfied;
    they shall prostitute themselves but not multiply,
because they have forsaken the Lord
to devote themselves to(F) 11     prostitution.

The Idolatry of Israel

Wine and new wine
    take away the understanding.(G)

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Notas al pie

  1. 4.4 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 4.7 Tg Syr: MT I will change