Hosea 4:9 Cross References - Rotherham

⁹ So doth it come to be––like people, like priest,––therefore will I visit upon him his ways, and, his doings, will I bring back to him;

¹⁷ Because he loved cursing, May it have come upon him, Because he delighted not in blessing, May it have kept far from him; ¹⁸ Because he clothed himself in cursing as his outer garment, therefore may it have entered like water into his inward part, and like oil into his bones;

²² His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.

¹⁰ Say ye to the righteous, It is well! For, the fruit of their doings, shall they eat:

¹⁴ Therefore hath Yahweh cut off from Israel––Head and tail, Palm–top and rush, In one day. ¹⁵ The elder and favourite, he, is the head,––And, the prophet teaching falsehood, he, is the tail; ¹⁶ And, they who should have led this people forward, have been causing them to stray,––And, they who are led of them, are destroyed,

² And it shall be––As the people, so, the priest, As the servant, so, his lord, As the maid, so, her mistress,––As the buyer, so, the seller, As the lender, so, the borrower, As the debtor, so! his creditor.

³¹ The prophets, have prophesied, falsely, And, the priests, tread down, by their means, And, my people, love it, so,––What then can ye do, as to her latter end?

¹⁰ Therefore, will I give––Their wives to others, Their fields, to such as shall take possession of them, For, from the least, even unto the greatest, Every one, is, wholly given to extortion: From the prophet, even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely. ¹¹ And so they have healed the grievous wound of the daughter of my people, slightly,––Saying, Peace! peace! when there was no, peace! ¹² Were they led to turn pale, because, an abominable thing, they had done? Nay! they did not, at all, turn pale, Nay! they did not so much as know how, to exhibit shame! Therefore, shall they fall among them who are falling, In the time when they are punished, shall they be overthrown, Saith Yahweh:

¹¹ For, both prophet and priest, are profane,––Even in my house, have I found their wickedness, Declareth Yahweh. ¹² Therefore, shall their way become to them like slippery places in darkness, They shall be driven on, and shall fall therein,––For I will bring in upon them calamity––The year of their visitation, Declareth Yahweh.

²⁶ Her priests, have done violence to my law, And have profaned my holy things, Between the hallowed and the common, have they put no difference, And, between the unclean and clean, have they not taught men to discern,––And, from my sabbaths, have they hid their eyes, So that I have been profaned in their midst. ²⁷ Her rulers within her, have been like wolves, rending prey,––In shedding blood, In destroying lives, For the sake of getting dishonest gain. ²⁸ And, her prophets, have coated it for them with whitewash, Seeing visions of falsehood, And divining for them lies,––Saying, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, when, Yahweh, hath not spoken. ²⁹ The people of the land, have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,––Even, the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And, the sojourner, have they oppressed, without justice. ³⁰ Then sought I from among them, a man, Who could build up a wall, And stand in the breach, before me in behalf of the land, So that I might not destroy her,––But I found none. ³¹ Therefore have I poured out upon them mine indignation, In the fire of mine outburst, have I consumed them,––Their way, upon their own head, have I placed, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

⁴ Then said Yahweh unto him, Call his name Jezreel: for, yet a little, and I will visit the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

¹³ My sacrificial gifts, have they been sacrificing as [common] flesh, and have eaten, Yahweh, hath not accepted them,––Now, will he call to mind their iniquity, that he may punish their sin, they, to Egypt, will return.

⁹ They have deeply corrupted themselves, like the days of Gibeah: he will call to mind their iniquity, he will punish their sins.

⁶ Howbeit, as for my words and my statutes with which I charged my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and so they returned and said, Just as Yahweh of hosts planned to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our practices, So hath he dealt with us?

¹⁴ Let them alone! they are, blind leaders; and, if the, blind, lead the, blind, both, into a ditch, will fall.