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Hosea 4:17

Hosea chapter 4 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

Context

v.16For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

v.17This passage

v.18Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hosea 12:1

    Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

  • Hosea 11:2

    The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

  • Psalms 81:12

    So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

  • Revelation 22:11

    He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still.

  • Matthew 15:14

    Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

  • Hosea 13:2

    And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.