Hosea brings a formal legal charge against Israel for having broken their covenant. "There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgement of God in the land... the land mourns because of this... you stumble day and night and the prophets stumble with you... because you have ignored the law of God I will ignore your children... it will be like people, like priests and I will punish both... they have deserted the Lord to turn to prostitution... they consult a wooden idol... a spirit of prostitution leads them astray... a people without understanding will come to ruin... the Israelites are stubborn like a stubborn heifer... a whirlwind will sweep them away and their sacrifices will bring them shame!"
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