Hosea 4:16
“But what is the source of this hardness? It comes from gluttony and drunkenness. Who says so? Moses himself. "Israel ate and was filled, and the darling grew fat and frisky." When brute animals feed from a full manger, they grow plump and become more obstinate and hard to hold in check; they endure neither the yoke, t…”
Source: Septuagint
16For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.
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14And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.
15But thou, Israel, be not ignorant, and go ye not, men of Judah, to Gilgal; and go not up to the house of Aven, and swear not by the living Lord.
— Hosea 4:16 —
17Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling blocks in his own way.
18He has chosen the Canaanites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonor through her insolence.