Hosea 4:11

Yahweh Has An Indictment

¹⁰ And they have eaten, and are not satisfied, They have gone a-whoring, and increase not, For they have left off taking heed to Jehovah. ¹¹ Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart, ¹² My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.

My People

New Wine

Sexual Immorality

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a scorner -- strong drink is noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

Isaiah 28:7

And even these through wine have erred, And through strong drink have wandered, Priest and prophet erred through strong drink, They have been swallowed up of the wine, They wandered because of the strong drink, They have erred in seeing, They have stumbled judicially.

Luke 21:34

'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

Isaiah 5:12

And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.

Proverbs 6:32

He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

Proverbs 23:27-35

For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.

Hosea 4:12

My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.

Romans 13:11-14

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;