Hosea 4:8

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

They eat up the sin of my people - i:e., the sin offerings (; ). The priests greedily devoured them.

And they set their heart on their iniquity - literally, lift up the animal soul to, i:e., lust after, or strongly desire. Compare margin, ; . "who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity;" , margin. The priests set their own hearts on the iniquity of the people, instead of trying to suppress it. For the more the people sinned, the more sacrificial victims in atonement for sin the prints gained for their eating.