11 [a]Whoredom, and wine, and new wine take away their heart.

12 My [b]people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff teacheth them: for the [c]spirit of fornications hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills under the oaks, and the poplar tree, and the elm, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall be [d]harlots, and your spouses shall be whores.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:11 In giving themselves to pleasures, they become like brute beasts.
  2. Hosea 4:12 Thus he speaketh by derision in calling them his people, which now for their sins they were not: for they sought help of stocks and sticks.
  3. Hosea 4:12 They are carried away with a rage.
  4. Hosea 4:13 Because they take away God’s honor, and give it to idols: therefore he will give them up to their lusts, that they shall dishonor their own bodies, Rom. 1:28.

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