Hosea 4:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Mereka mendapat rezeki dari dosa umat-Ku dan mengharapkan umat-Ku itu berbuat salah.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Mereka mendapat rezeki dari dosa umat-Ku dan mengharapkan umat-Ku itu berbuat salah.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Mereka itu makan dosa umat-Ku dan dipuaskannya hatinya dengan kesalahannya.

Contextual Overview

⁶ My people perishe for lacke of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, therfore wyll I refuse thee also, so that thou shalt no more be my priest: and forsomuche as thou hast forgotten the lawe of thy God, I wyll also forget thy chyldren. ⁷ The more they increased in multitude, the more they sinned against me, [therfore] wyll I chaunge their honour into shame. ⁸ They eate vp the sinnes of my people, and encourage them in their wickednesse. ⁹ Thus the priest is become lyke the people: Wherfore I wyll punishe them for their wicked wayes, and rewarde them according to their owne imaginations. ¹⁰ They shal eate and not haue inough, they haue vsed whordome, but shall not prosper, they haue forsaken the Lorde, and not regarded him. ¹¹ Whordome, wine, and newe wine, take the heart away.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

eat: Leviticus 6:26, Leviticus 7:6, Leviticus 7:7

set their heart on their iniquity: Heb. lift up their soul to their iniquity, 1 Samuel 2:29, Psalms 24:4, Psalms 25:1, Isaiah 56:11, Ezekiel 14:3, Ezekiel 14:7, Micah 3:11, Malachi 1:10, Romans 16:18, Titus 1:11, 2 Peter 2:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:13 - shall be Judges 18:4 - hired me 2 Kings 12:16 - trespass money 2 Chronicles 11:16 - set Proverbs 19:28 - the Jeremiah 5:23 - a revolting Amos 2:8 - they drink John 15:5 - same Acts 19:25 - ye know 1 Corinthians 13:6 - Rejoiceth not

Cross-References

Genesis 4:3
And in processe of dayes it came to passe, that Cain brought of the fruite of the grounde, an oblation vnto ye lorde:

Genesis 4:6
And the Lorde saide vnto Cain: why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenaunce abated?

Genesis 4:9
And the Lorde said vnto Cain: where is Habel thy brother? Which sayde I wote not: Am I my brothers keper?

Genesis 4:10
And he sayde: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me out of the grounde.

Genesis 4:12
If thou tyll the grounde, she shall not yeelde vnto thee her strength. A fugitiue and a vacabound shalt thou be in the earth.

Genesis 4:15
And the Lorde said vnto him: Uerely whosoeuer slayeth Cain, he shalbe punished seuen folde. And the Lorde set a marke vpon Cain, lest any man fyndyng hym shoulde kyll hym.

Genesis 4:24
If Cain shalbe auenged seuen folde, truely Lamech seuentie tymes & seuen tymes.

Genesis 4:26
And vnto the same Seth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enos: then began men to make inuocation in the name of the Lorde.

2 Samuel 3:27
And when Abner was come againe to Hebron, Ioab toke him asyde in the gate to speake with him peaceably, and smote him vnder the fyft ribbe, that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother,

2 Samuel 14:6
And thy hande mayde had two sonnes, and they two fought together in the fielde, where was no man to go betweene them, but the one smote the other, and slue him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They eat up the sin of my people,.... That is, the priests did so, as the Targum, the priests of Jeroboam; they ate up the sacrifices which the people brought for their sins: and their fault was, either that they ate that which belonged to the true priests of the Lord, so Jarchi; or they did that, and had no concern to instruct the people in the right way; all that they regarded were good eating and drinking, and living voluptuously; and were altogether careless about instructing the people in the nature of sacrifices, and in the way of their duty: or this may regard the Bacchanalian feasts, as some think, which the people made in the temples of idols, and so sinned; and of which the priests greatly partook, and encouraged them in, and so were partakers not only of their banquets, but of their sins.

They set their heart on their iniquity: either their offerings for their iniquity, or their iniquity itself: or, "lift up their soul" u to it; diligently looking after it, not caring how much they committed; since the more sin offerings would be brought which would be to their advantage. Though some think the sin of whoredom, frequently and impudently committed at these idol feasts, is meant, which the priests were much addicted to, and very greedy of; they committed cleanness with greediness, Ephesians 4:19.

u ואל עונם ישאו נפשו "et ad iniquitatem eorum levaverunt animam suam", Montanus, Pagninus, Tigurine version; "attollunt", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "et ad iniquitatem eorum tollunt anumam suam", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They eat up the sin of My people - The priests made a gain of the sins of the people, lived upon them and by them, conniving at or upholding the idolatries of the people, partaking in their idol-sacrifices and idolatrous rites, which, as involving the desertion of God, were “the sin of the people,” and the root of all their other sins. This the priests did knowingly. True or false, apostate or irregularly appointed, they knew that there was no truth in the golden calves; but they withheld the truth, they held it down in unrighteousness, and preached Jeroboam’s false-hood, “these be thy gods, O Israel.” The reputation, station, maintenance of the false priests depended upon it. Not being of the line of Aaron, they could be no priests except to the calves, and so they upheld the sin whereby they lived, and, that they might themselves be accounted priests of God, taught them to worship the calves, as representatives of God.

The word, “sin,” may include indirectly the sin-offerings of the people, as if they loved the sin or encouraged it, in order that they might partake of the outward expiations for it.

And they set their heart on their iniquity - , as the source of temporal profit to themselves. “Benefited by the people, they reproved them not in their sinful doings, but charged themselves with their souls, saying, on us be the judgment, as those who said to Pilate, His blood be upon us.” That which was, above all, “their iniquity,” the source of all the rest, was their departure from God and from His ordained worship. On this they “set their hearts;” in this they kept them secure by their lies; they feared any misgivings, which might rend the people from them, and restore them to the true worship of God. But what else is it, to extenuate or flatter sin now, to dissemble it, not to see it, not openly to denounce it, lest we lose our popularity, or alienate those who commit it? What else is it to speak smooth words to the great and wealthy, not to warn them, even in general terms, of the danger of making Mammon their god; of the peril of riches, of parade, of luxury, of immoral dressing, and, amid boundless extravagance, neglect of the poor; encouraging the rich, not only in the neglect of Lazarus, but in pampering the dogs, while they neglect him? hat is the praise of some petty dole to the poor, but connivance at the withholding from God His due in them? “We see now,” says an old writer , “how many prelates live on the oblations and revenues of the laity, and yet, whereas they are bound, by words, by prayers, by exemplary life, to turn them away from sin, and to lead them to amendment, they, in various ways, scandalize, corrupt, infect them, by ungodly conversation, flattery, connivance, cooperation, and neglect of due pastoral care. Whence Jeremiah says, “My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray.” O how horrible and exceeding great will be their damnation, who shall be tormented for each of those under their care, who perish through their negligence” Jeremiah 50:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 4:8. They eat up the sin of my people — חטאת chattath, the sin-offering, though it be offered contrary to the law; for their hearts are set on iniquity, they wish to do whatever is contrary to God.