Hosea 4:18 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 4:18

Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

KJV

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ASV

Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.

WEB

When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.

YLT

Sour is their drink, They have gone diligently a-whoring, Her protectors have loved shame thoroughly.

DBT

Their drink is sour; they give themselves up to whoredom; her great men passionately love [their] shame.

About this book

Old Testament

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Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.

Author: Hosea son of Beeri (1:1)
Date: Ministry c. 755–715 BC — the decades leading up to the 722 BC fall of the northern kingdom

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19 verses on the floor

Micah 3:11
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Proverbs 30:15–16
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
Isaiah 1:22
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Proverbs 28:21
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
Deuteronomy 32:32–33
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

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They drove a trade of uncleanness; it was not a single act now and then, but their constant practice, as it is of many that have eyes full of adultery and which cannot cease from that sin, 2 Pet. ii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Perhaps this is intended in that part of the charge here, Their drink is sour; it is dead; it is gone. Justice, duly administered, is refreshing, like drink to the thirsty, but when it is perverted, and rulers take rewards either to acquit the guilty or to condemn the innocent, the drink is sour; they turn judgment into wormwood, Amos

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Or, unbridled licentiousness; not mere ordinary sin, but as abandoned as drunkards who vomit and smell sour with wine potations [CALVIN]. MAURER not so well translates, "When their drinking is over, they commit whoredoms," namely, in honor of Astarte (Ho 4:13, 14). her rulers--Israel's; literally, "shields" (compare Ps 47:9). with shame . . . love, Give ye-- (Pr 30:15).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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