| 1 | Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. | 1Ki 22:19 Isa 1:10 Isa 28:14 Isa 34:1 Isa 66:5 Jer 2:4 Jer 7:2 Jer 9:20 Jer 19:3 Jer 34:4 Am 7:16 Rev 2:11 Rev 2:29 |
| 2 | There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood touches blood. | Isa 24:5 Isa 48:1 Isa 59:2-8 Isa 59:12-15 Jer 5:1 Jer 5:2 Jer 5:7-9 Jer 5:26-9 Jer 5:27-9 Jer 6:7 Jer 7:6-10 Jer 9:2-8 Jer 23:10-14 Ezk 22:2-13 Ezk 22:25-30 Mic 2:1-3 Mic 3:2 Mic 3:9 Mic 6:10 Mic 7:2 Zep 3:1 Zc 5:3 Zc 7:9 |
| 3 | Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone who dwells therein shall languish, with the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away. | Isa 24:4-12 Jer 4:27 Jl 1:10-13 Am 1:2 Am 5:16 Am 8:8 Nah 1:4 |
| 4 | Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for your people are as those who strive with the priest. | Hos 4:17 Am 5:13 Am 6:10 Mt 7:3-6 |
| 5 | You shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother. | Hos 9:7 Hos 9:8 Isa 9:13-17 Jer 6:4 Jer 6:5 Jer 6:12-15 Jer 8:10-12 Jer 14:15 Jer 14:16 Jer 15:8 Jer 23:9 Ezk 13:9-16 Ezk 14:8-10 Mic 3:5-7 Zc 11:8 Zc 13:2 |
| 6 | My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. | Hos 4:12 Isa 1:3 Isa 3:12 Isa 5:13 Jer 4:22 Jer 8:7 |
| 7 | As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame. | Hos 4:10 Hos 5:1 Hos 6:9 Hos 13:6 Hos 13:14 Ezr 9:7 |
| 8 | They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity. | Lv 6:26 Lv 7:6 Lv 7:7 |
| 9 | It shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings. | Isa 9:14-16 Isa 24:2 Jer 5:31 Jer 8:10-12 Jer 23:11 Jer 23:12 Ezk 22:26-31 Mt 15:14 |
| 10 | They shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the prostitute, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking heed to Yahweh. | Lv 26:26 Pr 13:25 Isa 65:13-16 Mic 6:14 Hg 1:6 Mal 2:1-3 |
| 11 | Prostitution and wine and new wine take away the understanding. | Hos 4:12 Pr 6:32 Pr 20:1 Pr 23:27-35 Ec 7:7 Isa 5:12 Isa 28:7 Lk 21:34 Ro 13:11-14 |
| 12 | My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them; for the spirit of prostitution has caused them to err, and they have played the prostitute, [departing] from under their God. | Jer 2:27 Jer 10:8 Ezk 21:21 Hab 2:19 |
| 13 | They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow of it is good: therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery. | Isa 1:29 Isa 57:5 Isa 57:7 Jer 3:6 Jer 3:13 Ezk 6:13 Ezk 16:16 Ezk 16:25 Ezk 20:28 Ezk 20:29 |
| 14 | I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for [the men] themselves go apart with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that does not understand shall be overthrown. | Hos 4:17 Isa 1:5 Heb 12:8 |
| 15 | Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don`t let Judah offend; and don`t you come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Yahweh lives. | Hos 4:12 Jer 3:6-10 Ezk 23:4-8 |
| 16 | For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Yahweh feed them as a lamb in a large place. | Hos 11:7 1Sa 15:11 Jer 3:6 Jer 3:8 Jer 3:11 Jer 5:6 Jer 7:24 Jer 8:5 Jer 14:7 Zc 7:11 |
| 17 | Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone. | Hos 11:2 Hos 12:1 Hos 13:2 |
| 18 | Their drink is become sour; they play the prostitute continually; her rulers dearly love shame. | Dt 32:32 Dt 32:33 Isa 1:21 Isa 1:22 Jer 2:21 |
| 19 | The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be put to shame because of their sacrifices. | Jer 4:11 Jer 4:12 Jer 51:1 Zc 5:9-11 |
