Hosea 4:11

"They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned listening to the LORD."

Key Reflection

In Hosea 4:11, these verses depict a spiritual famine where people engage in worldly pursuits like eating and sexual immorality but still feel unfulfilled. This indicates that without listening to the LORD, one's life remains empty and unsatisfying despite outward activity.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart -(Literally, “takes away”). Wine and fleshly sin are pictured as blended in one, to deprive man of his affections and reason and understanding, and to leave him brutish and irrational. In all the relations of life toward God and man, reason and will are guided by the affections. And so, in God’s language, the “heart” stands for the “understanding” as well as the “affections,” because it directs the understanding, and the understanding, bereft of true affections, and under the rule of passion, becomes senseless.

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