For the vineyard of Adonai-Tzva’ot is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah the planting of His delight. He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed, for righteousness, but behold, a cry!
Hosea 10:4 - Tree of Life Version They spoke words— empty oaths to make a covenant. But judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They have spoken mere words of the lips, swearing falsely in making covenants; therefore judgment springs up like hemlock [or other poisonous plants] in the furrows of the field. American Standard Version (1901) They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. Common English Bible They have spoken empty words, swearing falsely when making covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. Catholic Public Domain Version You speak words about a useless vision, and you will strike a deal. And judgment will spring up like bitterness in the furrows of the field. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You speak words of an unprofitable vision, and you shall make a covenant: and judgment shall spring up as bitterness in the furrows of the field. |
For the vineyard of Adonai-Tzva’ot is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah the planting of His delight. He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed, for righteousness, but behold, a cry!
Curse, deceive, murder, steal, commit adultery! They practice violence, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
But like Adam, they transgressed a covenant. There they dealt treacherously with Me.
Will horses run on the cliff? Will one plow there with oxen? Yet you turned justice into venom, the fruit of righteousness into wormwood.
For I see in you the poison of bitterness and the bondage of unrighteousness!”
“Now when someone hears the words of this oath and in his heart considers himself blessed, thinking, ‘Shalom will be mine, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart’—thus sweeping away the moist with the dry—
Adonai said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will abandon Me and break My covenant that I cut with them.
Then My anger will flare against them on that day, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them. So they will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will come on them. They will say on that day, ‘Isn’t it because our God is not among us that these evils have come on us?’
hardhearted, unforgiving, backbiting, without self-control, brutal, hating what is good,
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God; and see to it that no bitter root springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled.