The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that
doth not understand shall fall.
HOS 4:15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah
offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor
swear, The LORD liveth.
HOS 4:16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD
will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
HOS 4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
HOS 4:18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually:
her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
HOS 4:19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be
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