4 Their deeds do not permit them
to return to their God.
For the mspirit of whoredom is within them,
and nthey know not the Lord.
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Hosea 4:12
My people inquire of a piece of wood,
and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
and they have left their God to play the whore.
Jeremiah 4:22
“For my people are foolish;
they know me not;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
They are ‘wise’—in doing evil!
But how to do good they know not.”
Jeremiah 9:3
They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they do not know me, declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:6
Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
they refuse to know me, declares the LORD.
Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel,
for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
and no knowledge of God in the land;
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