Book of Hosea Chapter 4 Vs. 10

 The Lord Accuses Israel

For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. Hos. 4:10

Fifty-five Sins of Israel in Hosea

1. Whoredom, including all forms of sex perversions before idols (Hos. 1:2; 2:2-4; 4:10-18; 5:3-4; 6:10)

2. Adultery (Hos. 2:2; 3:1; 4:2; 7:4)

3. Unfaithfulness (Hos. 2:3, 2:13; 6:7; 8:11)

4. Willful ignorance (Hos. 2:8; 4:1; 5:4; 6:6; 11:3)

5. Idolatry (Hos. 2:8-13; 4:12-17; 5:11; 6:8; 8:4-11; 9:1; 10:1-9; 11:2; 13:1-2)

6. Hypocrisy (Hos. 2:11; 4:8; 6:6; 8:13-14; 9:4)

7. Forgetting God (Hos. 2:13; 8:14; 13:6)

8. Lustfulness (Hos. 2:5; 9:1)

9. Unthankfulness (Hos. 2:8; 11:3-4)

10. Swearing (Hos. 4:2)

11. Lying (Hos. 4:2; 7:1, 7:3, 7:13; 10:13; 11:12)

12. Murder (Hos. 4:2; 6:9)

13. Stealing (Hos. 4:2)

14. Forgetting God’s law (Hos. 4:6)

15. Rebellion (Hos. 4:6; 7:13; 8:3; 13:16)

16. Backsliding and apostasy (Hos. 4:7-8, 4:16; 5:2; 7:10; 9:1, 9:15; 11:7)

17. Unmerciful (Hos. 4:1; 6:6)

18. Eating the sin offering (Hos. 4:8)

19. Setting the heart on sin (Hos. 4:8)

20. Inquiring of idols (Hos. 4:12)

21. Divining with rods (Hos. 4:12)

22. Treachery (Hos. 5:7; 6:7)

23. Pride (Hos. 5:5; 7:10; 10:13; 13:6)

24. Lewdness (Hos. 6:9-10)

25. Injustice (Hos. 7:7)

26. Prayerlessness (Hos. 7:7, 7:10, 7:14)

27. Hardness of heart (Hos. 7:6)

28. Scorning (Hos. 7:5)

29. Drunkenness (Hos. 7:5)

30. Indifference (Hos. 7:2; 10:12)

31. Hating God (Hos. 7:13, 7:15; 9:7-9)

32. Plunder (Hos. 7:1)

33. Surmising (Hos. 7:15)

34. Deceit (Hos. 7:16; 11:12)

35. Having an unruly tongue (Hos. 7:16)

36. Being past feeling (Hos. 7:11)

37. Being obstinate (Hos. 7:10, 7:14; 11:5)

38. Unbelief (Hos. 8:14)

39. Irreverence (Hos. 8:12; 10:3)

40. Making altars to sin (Hos. 8:11)

41. Being self-willed (Hos. 8:4; 10:13)

42. Bribery (Hos. 9:1)

43. Eating unclean things (Hos. 9:3)

44. Sodomy (Hos. 9:9)

45. Allowing themselves to be misled (Hos. 9:7-9)

46. Selfishness (Hos. 10:1, 10:13)

47. Fruitlessness (Hos. 10:1)

48. Double-mindedness (Hos. 10:2)

49. Perjury (Hos. 10:4)

50. Ignoring God (Hos. 11:7)

51. Making unholy alliances (Hos. 12:1)

52. Provoking God (Hos. 12:4)

53. Covetousness (Hos. 12:8)

54. Self-defense (Hos. 13:9)

55. Acting unwisely (Hos. 13:13)

The priests’ sin is summarized here. They had deserted the Lord by breaking His covenant (cf. Deut. 28:20; 29:25; 31:16). The NIV puts the last three words of Hos. 4:10 with Hos. 4:11, to give themselves (lit., “to keep or watch”) to prostitution (RSV, “to cherish harlotry”).

Despite their greedy schemes to accumulate food, their appetites would not be satisfied for drought would make food scarce (cf. Hos. 4:3; Lev. 26:26; Mic. 6:14). Their efforts to promote fertility through cult prostitution would not succeed (cf. Hos. 2:13; Deut. 28:18).