Cain spoke to Abel his brother. While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
Hosea 4:2 - Tree of Life Version Curse, deceive, murder, steal, commit adultery! They practice violence, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition There is nothing but [false] swearing and breaking faith and killing and stealing and committing adultery; they break out [into violence], one [deed of] bloodshed following close on another. American Standard Version (1901) There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Common English Bible Swearing, lying, murder, together with stealing and adultery are common; bloody crime followed by bloody crime. Catholic Public Domain Version Slander, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery have overflowed, and bloodshed has brought more bloodshed. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood. |
Cain spoke to Abel his brother. While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
The land is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed Torah, violated statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the Name of Israel, who came from the wellspring of Judah, who swear by the Name of Adonai and confess the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness.
For neither Israel nor Judah will be widowed by his God, Adonai-Tzva’ot, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.
As a well gushes out its waters, so she pours out her wickedness. Violence and havoc are heard in her, sickness and wounds ever before Me.
Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her kohanim, who shed in her midst the blood of the tzadikim .
“Forge the chain! For the land is full of bloodshed. The city is full of violence.
You have plowed up wickedness, you have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of delusion, for you have trusted in your own way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
They spoke words— empty oaths to make a covenant. But judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
So by a prophet Adonai brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept.
Like marauding bands waiting for a man, so a company of priests murders on the way toward Shechem. For they have committed crime.
“When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, even the wickedness of Samaria, for they practice fraud. So a thief breaks in; a marauding band will raid outside.
They gladden the king with their evil and the princes with their lies.
All of them are practicing adultery, as an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring or kneading dough when it is leavened.
You haters of good and lovers of evil, you are robbing their skin from them and their flesh from their bones.”
Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob, rulers of the house of Israel: You who abhor justice, and twist everything upright,
Does the house of the wicked still have treasures of wickedness? Or is an undersized ephah denounced?
The pious have perished from the land, there is none upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood. A man hunts his brother with a net.
He said to me: “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land: everyone who steals will be swept away from here according to it, and everyone who swears will be swept away from here according to it.”
“Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: ‘Administer true judgment and practice mercy and compassion each to his brother.
And so, upon you shall come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed the ones who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. Now you have become His betrayers and murderers—
‘You must not take the Name of Adonai your God in vain, for Adonai will not leave unpunished anyone who takes His Name in vain.
‘Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’
“These words Adonai spoke to all your assembly on the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud and the fog, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
who killed both the Lord Yeshua and the prophets and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God and hostile to all people,
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the kedoshim and with the blood of the witnesses of Yeshua. When I saw her, I was totally astounded.