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Hos. 4:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

Their drink is ζsour: they have committed whoredom continually: her ηrulers with shame do love, Give ye.

gone.

shields,

Psa. 47:9• ⁹The willing-hearted of the peoples have gathered together, with the people of the God of Abraham. For unto God belong the shields of the earth: he is greatly exalted. (Psa. 47:9)

Cross References

drink.

Deut. 32:32‑33• ³²For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of poison, Bitter are their clusters;
³³Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of vipers. (Deut. 32:32‑33)

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Isa. 1:21‑22• ²¹How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.
²²Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water: (Isa. 1:21‑22)

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Jer. 2:21• ²¹And I,--I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me? (Jer. 2:21)

sour.

Heb. gone.

committed.

Hos. 4:2,10• ²Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery,--they break out; and blood toucheth blood.
¹⁰and they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: for they have left off taking heed to Jehovah. (Hos. 4:2,10)

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2 Kings 17:7‑17• ⁷And so it was, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods;
⁸and they walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
⁹And the children of Israel did secretly against Jehovah their God things that were not right; and they built them high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city.
¹⁰And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
¹¹and there they burned incense on all the high places, as did the nations that Jehovah had carried away from before them, and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;
¹²and they served idols, as to which Jehovah had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.
¹³And Jehovah testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.
¹⁴But they would not hear, and hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in Jehovah their God.
¹⁵And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
¹⁶And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of the heavens, and served Baal;
¹⁷and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger. (2 Kings 17:7‑17)

her.

Ex. 23:8• ⁸And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blindeth those whose eyes are open, and perverteth the words of the righteous. (Ex. 23:8)

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Deut. 16:19• ¹⁹Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a bribe; for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. (Deut. 16:19)

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1 Sam. 8:3• ³And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice. (1 Sam. 8:3)

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1 Sam. 12:3‑4• ³Here I am: testify against me before Jehovah, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I injured? or of whose hand have I received any ransom and blinded mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it to you.
⁴And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, and thou hast not injured us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand. (1 Sam. 12:3‑4)

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Prov. 30:15‑16• ¹⁵The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three things never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough:
¹⁶--Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough. (Prov. 30:15‑16)

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Amos 5:12• ¹²For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the right of the needy in the gate. (Amos 5:12)

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Mic. 3:11• ¹¹The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us. (Mic. 3:11)

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Mic. 7:3• ³Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge is there for a reward; and the great man uttereth his soul's greed: and together they combine it. (Mic. 7:3)

rulers.

Heb. shields.

Psa. 47:9• ⁹The willing-hearted of the peoples have gathered together, with the people of the God of Abraham. For unto God belong the shields of the earth: he is greatly exalted. (Psa. 47:9)

J. N. Darby Translation

Their drink is sourg; they give themselves up to whoredom; her great mena passionately love their shame.

JND Translation Notes

Or "their orgies are vile."

Lit. "shields," see Ps. 47.9.