Hosea 4:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

Hosea 4:9 —

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Isaiah 24:2
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Matthew 15:14
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Hosea 8:13
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-11)

God is here proceeding in his controversy both with the priests and with the people. The people were as those that strove with the priests (Hos. 4:4) when they had priests that did their duty; but the generality of them lived in the neglect of their duty, and here is a word for those priests, and for the people that love to have it so, Jer. 5:31. And it is observable here how the punishment answer…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. like people, like priest--They are one in guilt; therefore they shall be one in punishment (Is 24:2). reward them their doings--in homely phrase, “pay them back in their own coin” (Pr 1:31).