Hosea 4:6 — Meaning and Application

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people {are} as they that strive with the priest.

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. {destroy: Heb. cut off}

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. {destroyed: Heb. cut off}

As they were increased, so they sinned against me: {therefore} will I change their glory into shame.

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. {set...: Heb. lift up their soul to}