# Hosea 4

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/hosea/4

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Hear the word of Yahweh, people of Israel, for Yahweh has a case against the inhabitants of the land: there is no faithfulness, no loyalty, and no knowledge of God in the land.
2. There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
3. Therefore the land mourns, and all who live in it waste away, along with the wild animals and the birds of the sky; even the fish of the sea are swept away.
4. Yet let no one bring charges, and let no one accuse, for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
5. You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night, and I will destroy your mother.
6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from serving as my priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
7. The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.
8. They feed on the sin of my people and set their hearts on their iniquity.
9. So it will be: like people, like priest. I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
10. They will eat but not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution but not increase, because they have stopped paying heed to Yahweh.
11. Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
12. My people consult their piece of wood, and their stick gives them answers. For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have prostituted themselves, leaving their God.
13. They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. That is why your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
14. I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go off with prostitutes and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes. A people without understanding will come to ruin.
15. Though you, Israel, commit prostitution, do not let Judah become guilty. Do not go to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As Yahweh lives.”
16. For Israel is stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. Now will Yahweh pasture them like a lamb in a broad meadow?
17. Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.
18. When their drinking is over, they give themselves to prostitution; her rulers dearly love disgrace.
19. A wind has wrapped her up in its wings, and they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

## Nearby chapters

[Hosea 3](https://www.lumin.faith/read/hosea/3.md)
[Hosea 5](https://www.lumin.faith/read/hosea/5.md)

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