Hosea 10:4

New Living Translation

They spout empty words and make covenants they don’t intend to keep. So injustice springs up among them like poisonous weeds in a farmer’s field.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:7

The nation of Israel is the vineyard of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. The people of Judah are his pleasant garden. He expected a crop of justice, but instead he found oppression. He expected to find righteousness, but instead he heard cries of violence.

Hosea 4:2

You make vows and break them; you kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere— one murder after another.

Hosea 6:7

But like Adam, you broke my covenant and betrayed my trust.

Amos 5:7

You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the oppressed. You treat the righteous like dirt.

Amos 6:12

Can horses gallop over boulders? Can oxen be used to plow them? But that’s how foolish you are when you turn justice into poison and the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness.

Acts 8:23

for I can see that you are full of bitter jealousy and are held captive by sin.”

Romans 1:31

They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy.

Deuteronomy 29:18

I am making this covenant with you so that no one among you—no man, woman, clan, or tribe—will turn away from the Lord our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you bears bitter and poisonous fruit.

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die and join your ancestors. After you are gone, these people will begin to worship foreign gods, the gods of the land where they are going. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

Deuteronomy 31:17

Then my anger will blaze forth against them. I will abandon them, hiding my face from them, and they will be devoured. Terrible trouble will come down on them, and on that day they will say, ‘These disasters have come down on us because God is no longer among us!’

2 Timothy 3:3

They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good.

Hebrews 12:15

Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.