the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Hosea 4:11
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Promiscuity, wine, and new winetake away one’s understanding.
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.
Infidelity, wine, and new wine take away the understanding.
prostitution, to old and new wine, which take away their ability to understand.
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away the mind and the [spiritual] understanding.
Whoredome, and wine, and newe wine take away their heart.
Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
and have been unfaithful to me, their Lord . My people, you are foolish because of too much pleasure and too much wine.
Whoring and wine, both old and new, take away my people's wits.
Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.
"Sexual sins, strong drink, and new wine ruin a person's ability to think straight.
And they love whoredom, and wine and drunkenness take away their heart.
The Lord says, "Wine, both old and new, is robbing my people of their senses!
whoredom. Wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Fornication and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the heart.
Whoredome, and wine, and newe wine take away the heart.
Whordome, wine, and newe wine, take the heart away.
The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
Fornycacioun, and wiyn, and drunkenesse doen awei the herte.
Prostitution and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Lewdness and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.
"Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.
to worship other gods. "Wine has robbed my people of their understanding.
"Their sinful ways and both old and new wine take away My people's understanding.
whoredom. Wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Unchastity, and wine, and new wine, take away the heart.
Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.
Wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,
Whordome, wyne and dronckennesse take the herte awaye.
"Wine and whiskey leave my people in a stupor. They ask questions of a dead tree, expect answers from a sturdy walking stick. Drunk on sex, they can't find their way home. They've replaced their God with their genitals. They worship on the tops of mountains, make a picnic out of religion. Under the oaks and elms on the hills they stretch out and take it easy. Before you know it, your daughters are whores and the wives of your sons are sleeping around. But I'm not going after your whoring daughters or the adulterous wives of your sons. It's the men who pick up the whores that I'm after, the men who worship at the holy whorehouses— a stupid people, ruined by whores!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
take: Hosea 4:12, Proverbs 6:32, Proverbs 20:1, Proverbs 23:27-35, Ecclesiastes 7:7, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 28:7, Luke 21:34, Romans 13:11-14
Reciprocal: Genesis 38:18 - gave it her 1 Kings 11:8 - all his strange wives 1 Kings 11:9 - his heart 1 Kings 20:16 - Benhadad Proverbs 5:14 - General Proverbs 5:22 - His Proverbs 17:16 - seeing Proverbs 23:28 - increaseth Proverbs 31:3 - strength Proverbs 31:4 - General Isaiah 28:1 - drunkards Isaiah 56:12 - I will Isaiah 57:5 - Enflaming Hosea 2:8 - wine Hosea 3:1 - love flagons Hosea 6:10 - there Hosea 7:11 - without Amos 2:6 - For three
Cross-References
And Yahweh God said to the serpent,"Because you have done this,Cursed are you more than any of the cattle,And more than every beast of the field;On your belly you will go,And dust you will eatAll the days of your life;
Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and it will be that whoever finds me will kill me."
So Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." And Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one who found him would strike him.
Then Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
And Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and have livestock.
And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
And to Seth, to him also, a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of Yahweh.
"O earth, do not cover my blood,And let there be no resting place for my cry.
For behold, Yahweh is about to come out from His placeTo visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth;And the earth will reveal her bloodshedAnd will no longer cover those of hers who were killed.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Whoredom and wine, and new wine, take away the heart. Uncleanness and intemperance besot men, deprive them of reason and judgment, and even of common sense, make them downright fools, and so stupid as to do the following things; or they take away the heart from following the Lord, and taking heed to him, and lead to idolatry; or they "occupy" z the heart, and fill it up, and cause it to prefer sensual lusts and pleasures to the fear and love of God: their stupidity brought on hereby is exposed in the next verse; though it seems chiefly to respect the priests, who erred in vision through wine and strong drink, and stumbled in judgment, Isaiah 28:7.
z יקח לב "occupant cor", so some in Calvin and Rivet; "occupavit cor", Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart - (Literally, “takes away”). Wine and fleshly sin are pictured as blended in one, to deprive man of his affections and reason and understanding, and to leave him brutish and irrational. In all the relations of life toward God and man, reason and will are guided by the affections. And so, in God’s language, the “heart” stands for the “understanding” as well as the “affections,” because it directs the understanding, and the understanding, bereft of true affections, and under the rule of passion, becomes senseless. Besides the perversion of the understanding, each of these sins blunts and dulls the fineness of the intellect; much more, both combined. The stupid sottishness of the confirmed voluptuary is a whole, of which each act of sensual sin worked its part. The Pagan saw this clearly, although, without the grace of God, they did not act on what they saw to be true and right. This, the sottishness of Israel, destroying their understanding, was the ground of their next folly, that they ascribed to “their stock” the office of God. “Corruption of manners and superstition” (it has often been observed) “go hand in hand.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 4:11. Whoredom and wine — These debaucheries go generally together.
Take away the heart. — Darken the understanding, deprave the judgment, pervert the will, debase all the passions, &c.
