Hosea 10:4

Good News Translation

They utter empty words and make false promises and useless treaties. Justice has become injustice, growing like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:7

Israel is the vineyard of the Lord Almighty; the people of Judah are the vines he planted. He expected them to do what was good, but instead they committed murder. He expected them to do what was right, but their victims cried out for justice.

Hosea 4:2

They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another.

Hosea 6:7

“But as soon as they entered the land at Adam, they broke the covenant I had made with them.

Amos 5:7

You are doomed, you that twist justice and cheat people out of their rights!

Amos 6:12

Do horses gallop on rocks? Does anyone plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison, and right into wrong.

Acts 8:23

For I see that you are full of bitter envy and are a prisoner of sin.”

Romans 1:31

they have no conscience; they do not keep their promises, and they show no kindness or pity for others.

Deuteronomy 29:18

Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from the Lord our God to worship the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “You will soon die, and after your death the people will become unfaithful to me and break the covenant that I made with them. They will abandon me and worship the pagan gods of the land they are about to enter.

Deuteronomy 31:17

When that happens, I will become angry with them; I will abandon them, and they will be destroyed. Many terrible disasters will come upon them, and then they will realize that these things are happening to them because I, their God, am no longer with them.

2 Timothy 3:3

they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good;

Hebrews 12:15

Guard against turning back from the grace of God. Let no one become like a bitter plant that grows up and causes many troubles with its poison.