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Hosea 4 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:1 - Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2 - Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:3 - Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:4 - that neither any one may plead, nor any one reprove another: but my people are as a priest spoken against.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:5 - Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with thee shall fall: I have compared thy mother unto night.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:6 - My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:7 - According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:8 - They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their hearts on their iniquities.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:9 - And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:10 - And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have gone a-whoring, and shall by no means prosper: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:11 - The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12 - They asked counsel by means of signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:13 - They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:14 - And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:15 - But thou, Israel, be not ignorant, and go ye not, men of Juda, to Galgala; and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:16 - For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:17 - Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling-blocks in his own way.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:18 - He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:19 - Thou art a blast of wind in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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