Hosea 4:2 “Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one…”

Hosea 4:2

Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

World English Bible

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

American Standard Version

There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Geneva Bible 1599

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring they breake out, and blood toucheth blood.

Darby Translation

Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, — they break out; and blood toucheth blood.

Young's Literal Translation

Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery — have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

Bible in Basic English

There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

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Cross references

“swearing”

Jeremiah 6:7 Micah 7:2 Jeremiah 5:7–9 Jeremiah 7:6–10 Isaiah 24:5 Isaiah 48:1

Jeremiah 6:7 · BSB

As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

Micah 7:2 · BSB

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

Jeremiah 5:7–9 · BSB

“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.

Jeremiah 7:6–10 · BSB

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

Isaiah 24:5 · BSB

The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 48:1 · BSB

“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness—

“toucheth”

Hosea 6:9 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Hosea 5:2 Lamentations 4:13 Matthew 23:35 Acts 7:52

Hosea 6:9 · BSB

Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

1 Thessalonians 2:15 · BSB

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

Hosea 5:2 · BSB

The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.

Lamentations 4:13 · BSB

But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

Matthew 23:35 · BSB

And so upon you will 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.

Acts 7:52 · BSB

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

Also

Hosea 7:1 Hosea 10:4 Hosea 7:3 Hosea 12:14

Hosea 7:1 · BSB

When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.

Hosea 10:4 · BSB

They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Hosea 7:3 · BSB

They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.

Hosea 12:14 · BSB

Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him and repay him for his contempt.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!

3Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.

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