| 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. |
| 4:2 | By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. |
| 4:3 | Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. |
| 4:4 | Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. |
| 4:5 | Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. |
| 4:6 | My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. |
| 4:7 | As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. |
| 4:7 | 祭司越發增多、就越發得罪我．我必使他們的榮耀變為羞辱、 |
| 4:7 | 祭司越发增多，就越发得罪我。我必使他们的荣耀变为羞辱。 |
| 1sa:2:30 | Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. |
| mal:2:9 | Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law. |
| phl:3:19 | Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) |
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| 4:8 | They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. |
| 4:9 | And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. |
| 4:10 | For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. |
| 4:11 | Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. |
| 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. |
| 4:13 | They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. |
| 4:14 | I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall. |
| 4:15 | Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth. |
| 4:16 | For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. |
| 4:17 | Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. |
| 4:18 | Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye. |
| 4:19 | The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices. |
