Hosea 4:18 meaning and explanation
When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.
Hosea 4:18, Berean Standard Bible
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Hosea 4:18 falls within the LORD's covenant lawsuit against Israel, delivered through the prophet in the eighth century BC. The verse pictures a people whose appetite for drink gives way to cult prostitution, the ritual sex of Canaanite worship, and it says their rulers love disgrace, cherishing what should bring shame.
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