Oseas 4:7

7 Mientras más aumentaban los sacerdotes,más pecaban contra mí;cambiaron a quien es su gloria en algo deshonroso.

Oseas 4:7 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 4:7

As they were increased, so they sinned against me
As the children of the priests increased and grew up, they sinned against the Lord, imitating their parents; they were as many sinners as they were persons, not one to be excepted: this expresses their universal depravity and corruption. Some understand it of their increase, as in number, so in riches, wealth, honour, dignity, and authority, and yet they sinned more and more; which shows their ingratitude. So the Targum,

``as I have multiplied fruits unto them''

Therefore will I change their glory into shame,
take away their priesthood from them, so that they shall be no more priests, and as if they never had been; and reduce them to a state of poverty, meanness, and disgrace; and cause them to go into captivity with the meanest of the people; and be in no more honour, but subject to as much scorn and contempt as they.

Oseas 4:7 In-Context

5 Tropiezas de día y de noche,y los profetas tropiezan contigo;tu madre dejará de existir,

6 pues por falta de conocimientomi pueblo ha sido destruido.»Puesto que rechazaste el conocimiento,yo también te rechazo como mi sacerdote.Ya que te olvidaste de la ley de tu Dios,yo también me olvidaré de tus hijos.

7 Mientras más aumentaban los sacerdotes,más pecaban contra mí;cambiaron a quien es su gloria en algo deshonroso.

8 El pecado de mi pueblo es su comida;se regodean en su perversidad.

9 ¡De tal pueblo, tal sacerdote!¡Por eso les pediré cuentas de su conductay les daré la paga de sus acciones!