Hosea 4:2

Modern English Version

Swearing, lying, and killing, and stealing and adultery break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Cross References

Genesis 4:8

Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth also is defiled by its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, violated the ordinances, broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 48:1

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth from the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of the Lord, and invoke the God of Israel, but not in truth or in righteousness;

Jeremiah 51:5

For Israel has not been forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, the Lord of Hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 6:7

As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness. Violence and devastation are heard in her; before Me continually are grief and wounds.

Lamentations 4:13

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

Ezekiel 7:23

Make a chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Hosea 10:13

You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity, and you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your power and in the numbers of your warriors,

Hosea 10:4

They speak mere words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Thus judgment springs up like a poisonous plant in the furrows of the field.

Hosea 11:12

Ephraim has surrounded Me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit. But Judah still walks with God, and is faithful to the Holy One.

Hosea 12:14

Ephraim provoked Him to anger most bitterly, so his Lord shall leave his bloodguilt on him and repay him for his reproach.

Hosea 5:2

and a pit dug deep in Shittim; but I will discipline them all.

Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of evildoers, polluted with blood.

Hosea 6:9

As robbers lie in wait for someone, so a company of priests murder on the way to Shechem. They commit a shameful deed.

Hosea 7:1

When I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they deal deceitfully; the thief breaks in; the robbers raid outside,

Hosea 7:3

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough until it is leavened.

Micah 3:2

You who hate good and love evil, who tear the skin from My people and the flesh from their bones;

Micah 3:9

Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and warp all that is straight,

Micah 6:10

Are there still in the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness? And the short ephah which is accursed?

Micah 7:2

The godly has perished from the earth, and no one is upright among men. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; each hunts his brother with a net.

Zephaniah 3:1

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city.

Zechariah 5:3

He said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of all the land. Everyone who steals will be purged according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears falsely will be purged according to the writing on the other side.

Zechariah 7:9

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion, every man to his brother.

Matthew 23:35

that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? They have even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,

Deuteronomy 5:11

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not exonerate anyone 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 their own prophets and have persecuted us. They do not please God and are contrary to all men,

Revelation 17:6

I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly.