Hosea 4:2

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 4:8

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out in the field.” When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is polluted because of its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, broken the ancient covenant.

Isaiah 48:1

Hear this, house of Jacob called by the name Israel, sprung from the stock of Judah, You who swear by the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel without sincerity, without justice,

Jeremiah 51:5

For Israel and Judah are not left widowed by their God, the Lord of hosts, Even though the land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 6:7

As a well keeps its waters fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; ever before me are wounds and blows.

Lamentations 4:13

Except for the sins of her prophets and the crimes of her priests, Who poured out in her midst the blood of the just.

Ezekiel 7:23

They will wreak slaughter, for the land is filled with bloodshed and the city with violence.

Hosea 10:13

But you have plowed wickedness, reaped perversity, and eaten the fruit of falsehood. Because you have trusted in your own power, and in your many warriors,

Hosea 10:4

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

Hosea 12:14

But by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet Israel was tended.

Hosea 5:2

a pit dug deep in Shittim. Now I will discipline them all.

Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.

Hosea 6:9

Like brigands lying in wait is the band of priests. They murder on the road to Shechem, indeed they commit a monstrous crime.

Hosea 7:1

when I would have healed Israel, The guilt of Ephraim was revealed, the wickedness of Samaria: They practiced falsehood. Thieves break in, bandits roam outside.

Hosea 7:3

With their wickedness they make the king rejoice, the princes too, with their treacherous deeds.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers, like a blazing oven, Which the baker quits stoking, after the dough’s kneading until its rising.

Micah 3:2

you who hate what is good, and love evil? You who tear their skin from them, and their flesh from their bones;

Micah 3:9

Hear this, you leaders of the house of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel! You who abhor justice, and pervert all that is right;

Micah 6:10

Am I to bear criminal hoarding and the accursed short ephah?

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.

Zephaniah 3:1

Ah! Rebellious and polluted, the tyrannical city!

Zechariah 5:3

Then he said to me: “This is the curse which is to go forth over the whole land. According to it, every thief and every perjurer will be expelled.

Zechariah 7:9

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

Matthew 23:35

so that there may come upon you all the righteous blood shed upon earth, from the righteous blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They put to death those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

Deuteronomy 5:11

You shall not invoke the name of the Lord, your God, in vain. For the Lord will not leave unpunished anyone who invokes his name in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:18

You shall not commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5:19

You shall not steal.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us; they do not please God, and are opposed to everyone,

Revelation 17:6

I saw that the woman was drunk on the blood of the holy ones and on the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. Meaning of the Beast and Harlot. When I saw her I was greatly amazed.