KJV King James Version
Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone.
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Hosea 4:17
Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!
WEB World English Bible
Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!
ASV American Standard Version
Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Joined to idols is Ephraim, let him alone.
Surrounding context — Hosea 4
14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people [that] doth not understand shall fall.
15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
17 Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone.
18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers [with] shame do love, Give ye.
19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
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Psalm 81:12So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels.Revelation 22:11He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.Hosea 4:4Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people [are] as they that strive with the priest.Matthew 15:14Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.Hosea 13:2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, [and] idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.Hosea 11:2[As] they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.Hosea 12:1Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
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