17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
17 Ephraim H669 is joined H2266 to idols: H6091 let him alone. H3240
17 Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
17 Joined to idols `is' Ephraim, let him alone.
17 -- Ephraim is joined to idols: leave him alone.
17 Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!
17 Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
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Commentary on Hosea 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
Prophets were sent to be reprovers, to tell people of their faults, and to warn them of the judgments of God, to which by sin they exposed themselves; so the prophet is employed in this and the following chapters. He is here, as counsel for the King of kings, opening an indictment against the people of Israel, and labouring to convince them of sin, and of their misery and danger because of sin, that he might prevail with them to repent and reform.
Hsa 4:1-5
Here is,
Hsa 4:6-11
God is here proceeding in his controversy both with the priests and with the people. The people were as those that strove with the priests (v. 4) when they had priests that did their duty; but the generality of them lived in the neglect of their duty, and here is a word for those priests, and for the people that love to have it so, Jer. 5:31. And it is observable here how the punishment answers to the sin, and how, for the justifying of his own proceedings, God sets the one over-against the other.
Hsa 4:12-19
In these verses we have, as before,