Hosea 4

1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

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

2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

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

3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

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

4 Yet let no man contend, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that contend with the priest.

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

5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

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

6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

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

7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

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

8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

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

9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

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

10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase: because they have stopped taking heed to to the LORD.

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

11 Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.

fornication and wine and new wine to take: take heart

12 My people ask counsel at their idols, and their staff declareth to them: for the spirit of harlotry hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot departing from under their God.

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

13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because their shadow is pleasant: therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

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

14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for they themselves are separated with harlots, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

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

15 Though thou, Israel, playest the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye to Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

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

16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

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

17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him

18 Their drink is sour: they have committed harlotry continually: her rulers with love shame more than glory.

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

19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

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