Hosea 12:7

New American Bible - revised edition

You must return to your God. Maintain loyalty and justice and always hope in your God.

Cross References

Genesis 49:18

“I long for your deliverance, O Lord!

Proverbs 11:1

False scales are an abomination to the Lord, but an honest weight, his delight.

Proverbs 16:11

Balance and scales belong to the Lord; every weight in the sack is his concern.

Isaiah 3:5

And the people will oppress one another, yes, each one the neighbor. The child will be insolent toward the elder, and the base toward the honorable.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus says the Lord: Observe what is right, do what is just, for my salvation is about to come, my justice, about to be revealed.

Ezekiel 16:3

You shall say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: By origin and birth you belong to the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite, your mother a Hittite.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they wrong the poor and the needy, and oppress the resident alien without justice.

Ezekiel 28:5

Through your great wisdom in trading you heaped up riches for yourself— your heart is haughty because of your riches.

Hosea 14:2

Return, Israel, to the Lord, your God; you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now—oracle of the Lord— return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

Amos 2:7

They trample the heads of the destitute into the dust of the earth, and force the lowly out of the way. Son and father sleep with the same girl, profaning my holy name.

Amos 3:9

Proclaim this in the strongholds of Assyria, in the strongholds of the land of Egypt: “Gather on the mount of Samaria, and see the great disorders within it, the oppressions within its midst.”

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mount of Samaria: Who oppress the destitute and abuse the needy; Who say to your husbands, “Bring us a drink!”

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you tax the destitute and exact from them levies of grain, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, you shall not live in them; Though you have planted choice vineyards, you shall not drink their wine.

Micah 2:1

Ah! you plotters of iniquity, who work out evil on your beds! In the morning light you carry it out for it lies within your power.

Micah 7:2

The faithful have vanished from the earth, no mortal is just! They all lie in wait to shed blood, each one ensnares the other.

Zechariah 14:21

Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of hosts. All who come to sacrifice will take them and cook in them. No longer will there be merchants in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.

Zechariah 5:8

He said, “This is Wickedness,” and he thrust her inside the basket, pushing the leaden weight into the opening.

Zechariah 7:9

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Judge with true justice, and show kindness and compassion toward each other.

Malachi 3:5

I will draw near to you for judgment, and I will be swift to bear witness Against sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, those who deprive a laborer of wages, Oppress a widow or an orphan, or turn aside a resident alien, without fearing me, says the Lord of hosts.

John 2:16

and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”

James 5:4

Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I stand! Answer me in the presence of the Lord and the Lord’s anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I wronged? From whom have I accepted a bribe and shut my eyes because of it? I will make restitution to you.”