Hosea 12:7

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 11:1

A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will.

James 5:4

Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

John 2:16

And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages; the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Zechariah 14:21

And every caldron in Jerusalem and Juda shall be sanctified to the Lord of hosts: and all that sacrifice shall come, and take of them, and shall seethe in them: and the merchant shall be no more in the house of the Lord of hosts in that day.

Micah 7:2

The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

Amos 5:11

Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.

Amos 3:9

Publish it in the houses of Azotus, and in the houses of the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the many follies in the midst thereof, and them that suffer oppression in the inner rooms thereof.

Amos 2:7

They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression and committed robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor and they oppressed the stranger by calumny without judgment.

Ezekiel 16:3

And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy root and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan. Thy father was an Amorrhite and thy mother a Cethite.

Isaiah 3:5

And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against his neighbour: the child shall make it tumult against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Proverbs 16:11

Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.

1 Samuel 12:3

Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: If I have wronged any man: If I have oppressed any man: If I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.

Micah 2:1

Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.

Ezekiel 28:5

By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.

Zechariah 5:8

And he said: This is wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of the vessel, and cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

Genesis 49:18

I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.

Isaiah 56:1

THUS saith the Lord: Keep ye judgment and do justice, for my salvation is near to come and my justice to be revealed.

Hosea 14:2

Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

Joel 2:12

Now therefore saith the Lord: Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning.

Zechariah 7:9

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and shew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.