For the vineyard of YHWH Almighty is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah ʜɪꜱ delightful plant. Hᴇ looked for justice, but saw oppression, for righteousness, heard a cry of distress.
Hosea 10:4 - Y'all Version Bible They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds 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 YHWH Almighty is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah ʜɪꜱ delightful plant. Hᴇ looked for justice, but saw oppression, for righteousness, heard a cry of distress.
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me there.
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Do horses run on cliffs? Can one plow there with oxen? But y’all have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,
For I see that you are poisoned with bitterness and controlled by wickedness.”
Beware that there is no man, woman, family, or tribe among y’all whose heart turns away today from YHWH our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations. And beware that there is no root among y’all that produces bitter poison.
YHWH said to Moses, “Look, you are about sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. Many evils and troubles will come on them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, savage, not goodness-lovers,
watching carefully so that no one falls short of the grace of God, and no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.