Hosea 4

1 to hear: hear word LORD son: descendant/people Israel for strife to/for LORD with to dwell [the] land: country/planet for nothing truth: faithful and nothing kindness and nothing knowledge God in/on/with land: country/planet

Hear the word of the Lord, people of Israel, for the Lord has an accusation against the inhabitants of the land! “There is no faithfulness, no loyalty, and no knowledge of God in the land.

2 to swear and to deceive and to murder and to steal and to commit adultery to break through and blood in/on/with blood to touch

Instead there is only cursing, lying, murdering, stealing, and adultery. They commit violence, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

3 upon so to mourn [the] land: country/planet and to weaken all to dwell in/on/with her in/on/with living thing [the] land: country and in/on/with bird [the] heaven and also fish [the] sea to gather

As a result the land dries up, and everyone who lives there is wasting away, along with the wild animals and the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea—they are all dying.

4 surely man: anyone not to contend and not to rebuke man: anyone and people your like/as to contend priest

But no one should accuse or blame anyone else. My quarrel is with you the priests—you are the ones responsible.

5 and to stumble [the] day and to stumble also prophet with you night and to cease mother your

Consequently you will stumble in daylight, and the prophet will stumble together with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother.

6 to cease people my from without [the] knowledge for you(m. s.) [the] knowledge to reject and to reject you from to minister to/for me and to forget instruction God your to forget son: child your also I

My people are dying because they don't know me. Because you have refused to know me, I refuse to accept you as my priests. You have forgotten my teachings, so I will forget your children.

7 like/as to multiply they so to sin to/for me glory their in/on/with dishonor to change

The more there were of them, the more they sinned against me, so I will change their glory into shame.

8 sin people my to eat and to(wards) iniquity: crime their to lift: trust soul: appetite his

They feed on the sin of my people, greedy for their iniquity.

9 and to be like/as people like/as priest and to reckon: punish upon him way: conduct his and deed his to return: pay to/for him

So it will be for the people like the priests: I will punish them for what they have done, repaying them for their actions.

10 and to eat and not to satisfy to fornicate and not to break through for [obj] LORD to leave: forsake to/for to keep: look at

They will eat, but they will not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution, but they will not prosper because they have given up on the Lord to go and prostitute themselves to other gods.

11 fornication and wine and new wine to take: take heart

They destroy their minds with old wine and new wine.

12 people my in/on/with tree: wood his to ask and rod his to tell to/for him for spirit fornication to go astray and to fornicate from underneath: instead God their

My people consult their wooden idols and their divining rods give them answers, for a spirit of prostitution makes them go astray. Prostituting themselves, they have deserted their God.

13 upon head: top [the] mountain: mount to sacrifice and upon [the] hill to offer: offer underneath: under oak and poplar and oak for pleasant shadow her upon so to fornicate daughter your and daughter-in-law: bride your to commit adultery

They offer sacrifices on the tops of mountains; they burn incense in the hills under the oak, poplar, and terebinth trees where the shade is pleasant. That's the reason why your daughters practice prostitution and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

14 not to reckon: punish upon daughter your for to fornicate and upon daughter-in-law: bride your for to commit adultery for they(masc.) with [the] to fornicate to separate and with [the] cult prostitute to sacrifice and people not to understand to ruin

I will not punish your daughters when they practice prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because you men visit whores and sacrifice with temple prostitutes. A people who lack understanding end up in disaster.

15 if to fornicate you(m. s.) Israel not be guilty Judah and not to come (in): come [the] Gilgal and not to ascend: rise Beth-aven Beth-aven and not to swear alive LORD

Though you, Israel, have become a prostitute, may Judah not offend in the same way and not enter Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, nor swear saying, ‘the Lord lives.’

16 for like/as heifer to rebel to rebel Israel now to pasture them LORD like/as lamb in/on/with broad

For Israel is as stubborn as a stubborn cow. Should the Lord then take care of them like a lamb in a wide pasture?

17 to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him

Ephraim is bewitched by idols, so leave him alone!

18 to turn aside: depart liquor their to fornicate to fornicate to love: lover to love: lover dishonor shield her

Once the leaders finish drinking, they go off and find prostitutes to sleep with. They love their shameful acts more than honor.

19 to constrain spirit: breath [obj] her in/on/with wing her and be ashamed from sacrifice their

A wind will carry them away; they will be ashamed of their pagan worship.