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 Lord’s message, Israelites, for the Lord has brought charges against the inhabitants of the land, for there is no fidelity, nor true love, nor 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

but cursing, lying, and murder, stealing, committing adultery, and deeds of violence, and acts of bloodshed quickly follow each other.

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

Therefore the land mourns, all its inhabitants languish, the wild animals and the birds of the skies, even the fish of the sea are dying.

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

Yet let no one bring charges, let none accuse, for your people are like those, who bring charges against a priest.

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

You stumble by day, and the prophet stumbles with you by 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 being destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge I reject you from being priest to me. Since you have forgotten the teaching of your God, I also 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 priests there are, the more they sin against me. I will change their dignity to dishonor.

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

They feed on the sin offerings of my people, so they hunger after their guilt.

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

Thus it comes to be, like people, like priest: I will visit upon each punishment for their ways, and their deeds I will repay them.

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 and not be satisfied, they will sleep around but stay childless, because they have abandoned the Lord to give themselves to

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

prostitution. Old and new wine take away the understanding.

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 own people ask counsel of a piece of wood! A stick gives them advice! For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray, they commit adultery against 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

On the heights of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they burn incense under oaks and poplars and terebinths, for their shade is so pleasant. Therefore your daughters become cult prostitutes, 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 for committing prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law for adultery. Your men visit prostitutes, sacrifice with cult prostitutes. So a people without understanding come to ruin!

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 commit adultery, Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Do not go to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, nor swear an oath, “As 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

Like a willful heifer, Israel is stubborn. Can the Lord now feed them as he would a lamb in a broad pasture?

17 to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him

Ephraim is wedded to idols. Leave them alone!

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

When their drinking is over they sleep with the cult prostitutes, their rulers love shameful ways.

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

A windstorm will wrap them in its wings and they will be ashamed of their sacrifices.