Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters when they commit prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men consort with harlots, they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. It is true: ¹  “A people that lacks understanding will come to ruin!”

1Ki 14:23,24; 1Ki 15:12; 2Ki 23:7; Pr 28:5; Isa 1:5; Isa 44:18-20; Isa 56:11; Da 12:10; Ho 4:1,5,6; Ho 4:17; Ho 14:9; Joh 8:43; Ro 3:11; 1Co 6:16; Eph 4:18; Heb 12:8

¹ tn The words “it is true” are supplied in the translation to indicate that this is a conclusion drawn on the preceding behavior. Cf. NAB “So must a people”; NRSV “thus a people”; TEV “As the proverb says, ‘A people.’”