Hosea 12:7 - New Revised Standard Version

⁷ A trader, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Canaan [Israel–whose ideals have sunk to those of Canaan] is a trader; the balances of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress and defraud.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Common English Bible

⁷ He is a merchant; the means to cheat are in his hands; he loves to take advantage of others.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Canaan, in his hand is a deceitful balance, he has chosen false accusations.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

Hosea 12:7 Cross References

Genesis 49:18

I wait for your salvation, O Lord.

Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but an accurate weight is his delight.

Proverbs 16:11

Honest balances and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

Isaiah 3:5

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another and everyone by a neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the base to the honorable.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus says the Lord: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.

Ezekiel 16:3

and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the alien without redress.

Ezekiel 28:5

By your great wisdom in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all guilt; accept that which is good, and we will offer the fruit of our lips.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Amos 2:7

they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and push the afflicted out of the way; father and son go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;

Amos 3:9

Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod, and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, “Assemble yourselves on Mount Samaria, and see what great tumults are within it, and what oppressions are in its midst.”

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”

Amos 5:11

Therefore because you trample on the poor and take from them levies of grain, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not live in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Micah 2:1

Alas for those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.

Micah 7:2

The faithful have disappeared from the land, and there is no one left who is upright; they all lie in wait for blood, and they hunt each other with nets.

Zechariah 14:21

and every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be sacred to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and use them to boil the flesh of the sacrifice. And there shall no longer be traders in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.

Zechariah 5:8

And he said, “This is Wickedness.” So he thrust her back into the basket, and pressed the leaden weight down on its mouth.

Zechariah 7:9

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another;

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

John 2:16

He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!”

James 5:4

Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.”