Hosea 10:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Cross References

Amos 6:12

Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plough there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood   –

Amos 5:7

Those who turn justice into wormwood also throw righteousness to the ground.

Hosea 4:2

Cursing,  lying,  murder,   stealing, and adultery  are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

Hebrews 12:15

Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and defiling many.

2 Timothy 3:3

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers,  without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,

Romans 1:31

senseless, untrustworthy, unloving,  , and unmerciful.

Acts 8:23

For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by wickedness.’

Hosea 6:7

But they, like Adam,  have violated the covenant; there they have betrayed me.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the  Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men  of Judah, the plant he delighted in. He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair.

Deuteronomy 29:18

Be sure there is no man, 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. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, ‘You are about to rest with your ancestors,  and these people will soon prostitute themselves with the foreign gods  of the land they are entering. They will abandon me  and break the covenant  I have made with them.

Deuteronomy 31:17

My anger will burn against them on that day;  I will abandon them and hide my face from them so that they will become easy prey.  Many troubles and afflictions will come to them. On that day they will say, “Haven’t these troubles come to us because our God is no longer with us? ”