16The Israelites are stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. How then can the Lord pasture them like lambs in a meadow?
16The Israelites are stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. How then can the Lord pasture them like lambs in a meadow?
13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar and terebinth, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
14 "I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes- a people without understanding will come to ruin!
15 "Though you commit adultery, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. "Do not go to Gilgal; do not go up to Beth Aven. And do not swear, 'As surely as the Lord lives!'
16 The Israelites are stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. How then can the Lord pasture them like lambs in a meadow?
17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!
18 Even when their drinks are gone, they continue their prostitution; their rulers dearly love shameful ways.
4:16For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
4:16For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer: now will the Lord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.
4:16For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.
4:16For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture.
4:16For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will the LORD feed them as a lamb in a large place.
4:16For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
4:16For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
4:16For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.
4:16For Israel slides back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.