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Hosea 4:2

The Scriptures 1998

“Swearing, and lying, and murdering, and stealing, and committing adultery have increased. And bloodshed follows bloodshed.

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“And as bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder on the way to Sheḵ

who killed both the Master יהושע  and their own prophets, and have persecuted us, and who displease Elohim and are hostile to all men,

The kind one has perished from the earth, and there is no one straight among men. All of them lie in wait for blood, everyone hunts his brother with a net.

“Whenever I would heal Yisra’ĕ

“As a well flows with water, so she flows with her evil. Violence and destruction are heard in her. Before Me continually are suffering and smiting.

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the set-apart ones, and with the blood of the witnesses of יהושע. And having seen her, I marvelled – greatly marvelled!

“Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

so that on you should come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Heḇ

“Thus said יהוה  of hosts, ‘Execute true right-ruling, show kindness and compassion everyone to his brother.

And he said to me, “This is the curse that goes forth over the face of all the earth: ‘everyone who is stealing shall go unpunished,’ on the one side, according to it, and, ‘everyone who has sworn falsely shall go unpunished,’ on the other side, according to it.”

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

“Are there still treasures of wrongness in the house of the wrong, and the short measure that is an abomination?”

Hear this, please, you heads of the house of Yaʽ

you who are hating good and loving evil, tearing away the skin from My people, and the flesh from their bones,

Ephrayim has provoked most bitterly. So his Master left his blood-guilt on him, and repaid him for his reproach.

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Therefore judgment shall spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

“With their evil they make a sovereign glad, and rulers with their lies.

“And they have made deep the pit of Shittim, so I reprove them all.

It was because of the sins of her prophets, The crookednesses of her priests, Who shed in her midst the blood of the righteous.

“Hear this, O house of Yaʽ

For the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torot, changed the law, broken the everlasting covenant.

‘You do not bring the Name of יהוה  your Elohim to naught, for יהוה  does not leave him unpunished who brings His Name to naught.

‘Make a chain, for the land has been filled with crimes of blood, and the city has been filled with violence.

“All of them are adulterers, as an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, until it is leavened.

You have ploughed wrongness, you have reaped unrighteousness, you have eaten the fruit of lying, because you trusted in your own way, in your many mighty men.

“Ephrayim has surrounded Me with lying, and the house of Yisra’ĕ




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