Hosea 4:19
Good News Translation
They will be carried away as by the wind, and they will be ashamed of their pagan sacrifices.

New Revised Standard Version
A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

Contemporary English Version
And so you will be swept away in a whirlwind for sacrificing to idols.

New American Bible
A wind has bound them up in its wings; they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall be confounded because of their sacrifices.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall be confounded because of their sacrifices.

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Jeremiah 4:11,12 At that time it shall be said to this people, and to Jerusalem: A burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert of the way of the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse. . . .

Jeremiah 51:1 Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a pestilential wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants thereof, who have lifted up their heart against me.

Zechariah 5:9-11 And I lifted up my eyes and looked: and behold there came out two women, and wind was in their wings, and they had wings like the wings of a kite: and they lifted up the vessel between the earth and the heaven. . . .

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Hosea 10:6 For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the avenging king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be confounded in his own will.

Isaiah 1:29 For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

Isaiah 42:17 They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.

Jeremiah 2:26,27,36,37 As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of Israel confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their priests, and their prophets. . . .

Jeremiah 3:24,25 Confusion hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. . . .

Jeremiah 17:13 O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth: because they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.

Context
God's Charges Against Israel
18Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by fornication: they that should have protected them have loved to bring shame upon them. 19The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall be confounded because of their sacrifices.
Cross References
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.

Hosea 13:15
Because he shall make a separation between brothers: the Lord will bring a burning wind that shall rise from the desert, and it shall dry up his springs, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall carry off the treasure of every desirable vessel.

Hosea 4:18
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