Quotes about Sin
I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.
— Hosea 5:3
Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.
— Hosea 5:5
They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.
— Hosea 5:7
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
— Hosea 6:7
Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.
— Hosea 6:8
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.
— Hosea 6:10
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
— Hosea 7:4
Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
— Hosea 8:11
They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.
— Hosea 9:4
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
— Hosea 9:9
The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
— Hosea 10:8
Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?
— Hosea 10:9