“How shall I pardon you for this?
Your children have forsaken Me
And (A)sworn by those (B)that are not gods.
(C)When I had fed them to the full,
Then they committed adultery
And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

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(A)They were like well-fed lusty stallions;
Every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

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10 For (A)the land is full of adulterers;
For (B)because of a curse the land mourns.
(C)The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course of life is evil,
And their might is not right.

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By swearing and lying,
Killing and stealing and committing adultery,
They break all restraint,
With bloodshed [a]upon bloodshed.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:2 Lit. touching

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