Hosea 4:2

For your hands are defiled with blood And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken a lie; Your tongue mutters unrighteousness.

Oh that I had in the desert A travelers’ lodging place, That I might leave my people And go from them! For all of them are adulterers, A solemn assembly of treacherous men.

For the land is full of adulterers; For the land mourns because of the curse. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course also is evil, And their might is not right.

For neither Israel nor Judah has been widowed By his God, by Yahweh of hosts, Although their land is full of guilt Before the Holy One of Israel.

‘Make the chain, for the land is full of judgments that promote bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

“Slanderous men have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have done acts of lewdness.

And the revolters have dug deep into slaughtering, But I will chastise all of them.

Gilead is a city of workers of iniquity, With a track of blood.

And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed lewdness.

When I would heal Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, And the evil deeds of Samaria, For they work falsehood; The thief enters in; Raiders ransack outside,

With their evil they make the king glad, And the princes with their deceptions.

They speak mere words; With worthless oaths they cut covenants; And judgment flourishes like gall in the furrows of the field.

You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; You have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have trusted in your way, in your abundant warriors,

Ephraim surrounds Me with lies And the house of Israel with deceit; And Judah is also unruly against God, Even against the Holy One who is faithful.

“I will make it go forth,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and consume it with its timber and stones.”