Hosea 10:4

New American Bible - revised edition

They make promises, swear false oaths, and make covenants, While lawsuits sprout like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field!

Cross References

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, the people of Judah, his cherished plant; He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, murder, stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 6:7

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

Amos 5:7

Woe to those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground,

Amos 6:12

Can horses run over rock, or can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Acts 8:23

For I see that you are filled with bitter gall and are in the bonds of iniquity.”

Romans 1:31

They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Deuteronomy 29:18

if any such persons, after hearing the words of this curse, should congratulate themselves, saying in their hearts, “I am safe, even though I walk in stubbornness of heart,” thereby sweeping away moist and dry alike,

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, Soon you will be at rest with your ancestors, and then this people will prostitute themselves by following the foreign gods among whom they will live in the land they are about to enter. They will forsake me and break the covenant which I have made with them.

Deuteronomy 31:17

At that time my anger will flare up against them; I will forsake them and hide my face from them; they will become a prey to be devoured, and much evil and distress will befall them. At that time they will indeed say, “Is it not because our God is not in our midst that these evils have befallen us?”

2 Timothy 3:3

callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good,

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled,