Hosea 10:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.”
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“They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They speakvainwords, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hosea 10:4 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 29:18Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
- 2 Kings 17:3Shalmaneser king of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.
- 2 Kings 17:4But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.
- Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
- Isaiah 59:13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
- Ezekiel 17:13He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,
- Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- Hosea 6:7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
- Amos 5:7There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
- Amos 6:12“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
- Acts 8:23For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
- Romans 1:31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
- 2 Timothy 3:3unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,
- Hebrews 12:15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
- Revelation 8:10Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
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