Hosea 4:10

"It will be like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds."

Key Reflection

This verse illustrates that iniquity is not just a matter between individuals but extends to those in leadership roles, including priests. God emphasizes that both the common people and the religious leaders who should be setting an example will face judgment for their sins, highlighting the interconnectedness of communal responsibility and divine accountability.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For they shall eat, and not have enough -This is almost a proverbial saying of Holy Scripture, and, as such, has manifold applications. In the way of nature, it comes true in those, who, under God’s affictive Hand in famine or siege, “eat” what they have, but have “not enough,” and perish with hunger. It comes true in those, who, through bodily disease, are not nourished by their food. Yet not less true is it of those who, through their own insatiate desires, are never satisfied, but crave the more greedily, the more they have. Their sin of covetousness becomes their torment.

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