Hosea 4:9 Cross References - Brenton

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.

^{17 (108:17)} He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; and he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him. ^{18 (108:18)} Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, and it is come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones.

²² Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.

¹⁰ Woe to their soul, for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying against themselves, Let us bind the just, for he is burdensome to us: therefore shall they eat the fruits of their works.

¹⁴ So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day: ¹⁵ the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail. ¹⁶ And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.

² And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.

³¹ the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands: and my people has loved to have it thus: and what will ye do for the future.

¹⁰ Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to new inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, saith the Lord. ¹¹ (OMITTED TEXT) ¹² (OMITTED TEXT)

¹¹ For priest and prophet are defiled; and I have seen their iniquities in my house. ¹² Therefore let their way be to them slippery and dark: and they shall be tripped up and fall in it: for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation.

²⁶ Her priests also have set at nought my law, and profaned my holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have his their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them. ²⁷ Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain. ²⁸ And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken. ²⁹ That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger. ³⁰ And I sought from among them a man behaving uprightly, and standing before me perfectly in the time of wrath, so that I should not utterly destroy her: but I found him not. ³¹ So I have poured out my wrath upon her in the fury of mine anger, to accomplish it. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, saith the Lord God.

⁴ And the Lord said to him, Call his name Jezrael; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezrael on the house of Juda, and will make to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

¹³ For if they should offer a sacrifice, and eat flesh, the lord will not accept them: now will he remember their iniquities, and will take vengeance on their sins: they have returned to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.

⁹ They have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquities, he will take vengeance on their sins.

⁶ But do ye receive my words and mine ordinances, all that I command by my Spirit to my servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers; and they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has he done to us.