Hosea 4:2

Legacy Standard Bible

There is swearing of oaths, deception, murder, stealing, and adultery. They break forth in violence so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Cross References

Genesis 4:8

Then Cain spoke to Abel his brother; and it happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they trespassed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 48:1

“Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name Israel And who came forth from the loins of Judah, Who swear by the name of Yahweh And bring to remembrance the God of Israel, But not in truth or in righteousness.

Jeremiah 51:5

¶For neither Israel nor Judah has been widowed By his God, by Yahweh of hosts, Although their land is full of guilt Before the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 6:7

“Like a well keeps its waters fresh, So she keeps fresh her evil. Violence and devastation are heard in her; Sickness and wounds are continually before Me.

Lamentations 4:13

Because of the sins of her prophets And the iniquities of her priests, Who have shed in her midst The blood of the righteous;

Ezekiel 7:23

‘Make the chain, for the land is full of judgments that promote bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

Hosea 10:13

You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; You have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have trusted in your way, in your abundant warriors,

Hosea 10:4

They speak mere words; With worthless oaths they cut covenants; And judgment flourishes like gall in the furrows of the field.

Hosea 11:12

¶Ephraim surrounds Me with lies And the house of Israel with deceit; And Judah is also unruly against God, Even against the Holy One who is faithful.

Hosea 12:14

Ephraim has provoked to bitter anger; So his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him And cause his reproach to return to him.

Hosea 5:2

And the revolters have dug deep into slaughtering, But I will chastise all of them.

Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of workers of iniquity, With a track of blood.

Hosea 6:9

And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed lewdness.

Hosea 7:1

When I would heal Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, And the evil deeds of Samaria, For they work falsehood; The thief enters in; Raiders ransack outside,

Hosea 7:3

With their evil they make the king glad, And the princes with their deceptions.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker Who ceases to stir up the fire From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Micah 3:2

“You who hate good and love evil, Who tear off their skin from them And their flesh from their bones,

Micah 3:9

Now hear this, heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And twist everything that is straight,

Micah 6:10

“Is there yet a man in the wicked house, Along with treasures of wickedness, And a short measure which is cursed?

Micah 7:2

The holy one has perished from the land, And there is no upright person among men. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; Each of them hunts the other with a net.

Zephaniah 3:1

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The oppressive city!

Zechariah 5:3

Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going forth over the face of the whole land; surely everyone who steals will be purged away according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears will be purged away according to the writing on the other side.

Zechariah 7:9

“Thus has Yahweh of hosts said, ‘Judge with true justice and show lovingkindness and compassion each to his brother;

Matthew 23:35

so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Acts 7:52

And which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;

Deuteronomy 5:11

¶‘You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:18

¶‘You shall not commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5:19

¶‘You shall not steal.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and do not please God, and are hostile to all men,

Revelation 17:6

Then I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.