Hosea 4:11
Good News Translation
The LORD says, "Wine, both old and new, is robbing my people of their senses!

New Revised Standard Version
whoredom. Wine and new wine take away the understanding.

Contemporary English Version
and have been unfaithful to me, their LORD. My people, you are foolish because of too much pleasure and too much wine.

New American Bible
to prostitution. Aged wine and new wine take away understanding.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.

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Hosea 4:12 My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them, and they have committed fornication against their God.

Proverbs 6:32 He gathereth to himself shame and dishonour, and his reproach shall not be blotted out:

Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.

Proverbs 23:27-35 For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit. . . .

Ecclesiastes 7:7 Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart.

Isaiah 5:12 The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Isaiah 28:7 But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Romans 13:11-14 And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. . . .

Context
God's Charges Against Israel
10And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in not observing the law. 11Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.12My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them, and they have committed fornication against their God.…
Cross References
Leviticus 10:9
You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:

1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal's heart was merry, for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning.

Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.

Proverbs 31:4
Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth:

Isaiah 5:12
The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Isaiah 28:7
But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

Hosea 7:11
And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a heart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the Assyrians.

Hosea 4:10
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