Hosea 4:7

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Summary

Hosea 4:7

As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

They were

Ezra 9:7

Therefore

General references

Jeremiah 23:40

Bible References

They were

They will eat, but not have enough;

They will play the harlot, but not increase,
Because they have

stopped giving heed to the Lord.

Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
For the judgment applies to you,
For you have been a snare at Mizpah
And a net spread out on Tabor.

And as raiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed

crime.

As they had their pasture, they became satisfied,
And being satisfied, their heart became proud;
Therefore they forgot Me.

Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt, and on account of our iniquities we, our kings and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity and to plunder and to

open shame, as it is this day.

Therefore

Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever’; but now the Lord declares, ‘Far be it from Me—for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.

“As the thief is shamed when he is discovered,
So the house of Israel is shamed;
They, their kings, their princes
And their priests and their prophets,

“So I also have made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.

whose end is destruction, whose god is their

appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.

General references

I will put an everlasting reproach on you and an everlasting humiliation which will not be forgotten.”