Hosea 5:4 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 5:4

They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

KJV

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ASV

Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.

WEB

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.

YLT

They give not up their habitual doings, To turn back unto their God, For a spirit of whoredoms is in their midst, And Jehovah they have not known.

DBT

Their doings do not allow them to return unto theirGod; for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they know not Jehovah.

About this book

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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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Jeremiah 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
1 John 2:3–4
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
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.
Jeremiah 9:24
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

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Note, Men's rejecting the knowledge of God will not secure them from his knowledge of them; and when he contends with them he will prove their sins upon them by his own knowledge, so that is will be in vain to plead Not guilty. Very bad things are laid to their charge.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This intimates their obstinate persistence in their apostasy from God; they would not turn to God, though he was their God, theirs in covenant, by whose name they had been called, and whom they were bound to serve. They would not return to the worship of him, from which they had turned aside.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The Hebrew is against the Margin, their doings will not suffer them" the omission of "them" in the Hebrew after the verb being unusual. The sense is, they are incurable, for they will not permit (as the Hebrew literally means) their doings to be framed so as to turn unto God.

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

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