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Read Full Chapter (Hosea 4) Hosea 4:9 KJV
"And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings."
Hosea Chapter 4, Verse 9
Hosea 4:9 in Context (Verses 6–12 KJV)
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.*
7
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
8
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.*
9
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.**
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.
11
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
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.