Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth therein shall be cut off, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the heaven, and also the fishes of the sea shall be taken away.

Yet [a]let none rebuke, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that rebuke the Priest.

Therefore shalt thou fall in the [b]day, and the Prophet shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy [c]mother.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:4 As though he would say that it were in vain to rebuke them: for no man can abide it: yea, they will speak against the prophets and priests whose office it is chiefly to rebuke them.
  2. Hosea 4:5 Ye shall perish all together the one because he would not obey, and the other, because he would not admonish.
  3. Hosea 4:5 That is, the Synagogue wherein thou boastest.

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