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Hosea 4:2
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Cursing, lying, murder, stealing,and adultery are rampant;one act of bloodshed follows another.
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; They break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
There is oath-taking, denial, murder, stealing, and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Cursing, lying, killing, stealing and adultery are everywhere. One murder follows another.
There is [false] swearing of oaths, deception (broken faith), murder, stealing, and adultery; They employ violence, so that one [act of] bloodshed follows closely on another.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring they breake out, and blood toucheth blood.
There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.
There is swearing of oaths, deception, murder, stealing, and adultery.They break forth in violence so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
Cursing, dishonesty, murder, robbery, unfaithfulness— these happen all the time. Violence is everywhere.
only swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing adultery! They break all bounds, with one blood crime following another.
Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery,—they break out; and blood toucheth blood.
They are always cursing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery. They murder one person after another.
But cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they have increased and they mix blood with blood.
They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another.
Swearing and lying, murdering and stealing, and adultery break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery increase. And blood touches against blood.
There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
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.
Swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery! they break all bounds, and blood toucheth blood.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adulterie, they breake out, and blood toucheth blood.
But swearing, lying, manslaughter, theft, and adulterie, hath gotten the ouer hande, and one bloodgiltinesse foloweth another.
Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.
There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; They break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
Curs, and leesyng, and manquelling, and thefte, and auowtrie flowiden, and blood touchide blood.
Swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery are rampant; and blood is everywhere.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.
By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed.
You make vows and break them; you kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere— one murder after another.
There is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and sex sins. They are always hurting others, and there is one killing after another.
Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Cursing and lying, and killing and stealing, and committing adultery, have broken forth, and, blood-shedding, unto blood-shedding, doth extend.
Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
but swearinge, lyege, maslaughter, theft and aduoutry haue gotten the ouerhande, & one bloudgiltynesse foloweth another.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
swearing: Isaiah 24:5, Isaiah 48:1, Isaiah 59:2-8, Isaiah 59:12-15, Jeremiah 5:1, Jeremiah 5:2, Jeremiah 5:7-9, Jeremiah 5:26, Jeremiah 5:27, Jeremiah 6:7, Jeremiah 7:6-10, Jeremiah 9:2-8, Jeremiah 23:10-14, Ezekiel 22:2-13, Ezekiel 22:25-30, Micah 2:1-3, Micah 3:2, Micah 3:9, Micah 6:10, Micah 7:2, Zephaniah 3:1, Zechariah 5:3, Zechariah 7:9
blood: Heb. bloods
toucheth: Hosea 5:2, Hosea 6:9, Lamentations 4:13, Matthew 23:35, Acts 7:52, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, Revelation 17:6
Reciprocal: Genesis 6:11 - filled Genesis 6:13 - filled Numbers 35:33 - it defileth Deuteronomy 28:30 - betroth Psalms 50:19 - tongue Psalms 51:14 - bloodguiltiness Psalms 59:12 - cursing Proverbs 6:17 - lying Isaiah 3:13 - standeth up Isaiah 30:9 - lying Isaiah 59:3 - your hands Isaiah 59:8 - no Isaiah 59:15 - truth Jeremiah 13:27 - thine adulteries Lamentations 4:14 - so that men could not touch Ezekiel 7:23 - for Ezekiel 11:6 - General Ezekiel 21:24 - your transgressions Ezekiel 22:9 - they commit Ezekiel 23:37 - and blood Hosea 4:18 - committed Hosea 7:4 - are all Amos 2:6 - For three Micah 6:12 - the rich Nahum 3:1 - full Zechariah 8:16 - Speak Ephesians 4:25 - putting Ephesians 4:28 - him that 1 Timothy 1:10 - perjured
Cross-References
therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, for Cain slew him."
To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
Noah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard;
And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."
Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."
Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Mid'ian; and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Lo, sons are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.
and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechari'ah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it shall be required of this generation.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
By swearing, and lying,.... Which some join together, and make but one sin of it, false swearing, so Jarchi and Kimchi; but that swearing itself signifies, as the Targum interprets it; for it not only takes in all cursing and imprecations, profane oaths, and taking the name of God in vain, and swearing by the creatures, but may chiefly design perjury; which, though one kind of "lying", may be distinguished from it here; the latter intending "lying" in common, which the devil is the father of, mankind are incident unto, and which is abominable to God, whether in civil or in religious things: "and killing, and stealing and committing adultery"; murders, thefts, and adulteries, were very common with them; sins against the sixth, eighth, and seventh commandments:
they break out; through all the restraints of the laws of God and man, like an unruly horse that breaks his bridle and runs away; or like wild beasts, that break down the fences and enclosures about them, and break out, and get away; or like a torrent of water, that breaks down its dams and banks, and overflows the meadows and plains; such a flood and deluge of sin abounded in the nation. Some render it, "they thieve" o; or act the part of thieves and robbers: and the Targum,
"they beget sons of their neighbours' wives;''
and so Abarbinel interprets it of breaking through the hedge of another man's wife; but these sins are observed before:
and blood toucheth blood; which some understand of sins in general, so called, because filthy and abominable; and of the addition and multiplication of them, there being as it were heaps of them, or rather a chain of them linked together. So the Targum,
"and they add sins to sins.''
Others interpret it of impure mixtures, of incestuous lusts, or marriages contrary to the ties of blood, and laws of consanguinity,
Leviticus 18:6, or rather it is to be understood of the great effusion of blood, and frequency of murders; so that there was scarce any interval between them, but a continued series of them. Some think respect is had to the frequent slaughter of their kings; Zachariah the son of Jeroboam was slain by Shallum, when he had reigned but six months; and Shallum was slain by Menahem when he had reigned but one month; and this Menahem was a murderer of many, smote many places, and ripped up the women with child; Pekahiah his son was killed by Pekah the son of Remaliah, and he again by Hoshea, 2 Kings 15:8.
o פרצו "latrocinantur, [vel] latrones agunt", Schmidt
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
By swearing, and lying ... - Literally, “swearing or cursing” , “and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery!” The words in Hebrew are nouns of action. The Hebrew form is very vivid and solemn. It is far more forcible than if he had said, “They swear, lie, kill, and steal.” It expresses that these sins were continual, that nothing else (so to speak) was going on; that it was all one scene of such sins, one course of them, and of nothing besides; as we say more familiarly, “It was all, swearing, lying, killing, stealing, committing adultery.” It is as if the prophet, seeing with a sight above nature, a vision from God, saw, as in a picture, what was going on, all around, within and without, and summed up in this brief picture, all which he saw. This it was and nothing but this, which met his eyes, wherever he looked, whatever he heard, “swearing, lying, killing, stealing, committing adultery.” The prophet had before said, that the ten tribes were utterly lacking in all truth, all love, all knowledge of God. But where there are none of these, “there,” in all activity, will be the contrary vices. When the land or the soul is empty of the good, it will be full of the evil. “They break out,” i. e., burst through all bounds, set to restrain them, as a river bursts its banks and overspreads all things or sweeps all before it. “And blood toucheth blood,” literally, “bloods touch bloods” . The blood was poured so continuously and in such torrents, that it flowed on, until stream met stream and formed one wide inundation of blood.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 4:2. By swearing, and lying — Where there is no truth there will be lies and perjury; for false swearing is brought in to confirm lying statements. And when there is no mercy, killing, slaying, and murders, will be frequent. And where there is no knowledge of God, no conviction of his omnipresence and omniscience, private offenses, such as stealing, adulteries, c., will prevail. These, sooner or later, break out, become a flood, and carry all before them. Private stealing will assume the form of a public robbery, and adulteries become fashionable, especially among the higher orders and suits of crim. con. render them more public, scandalous, and corrupting. By the examination of witnesses, and reading of infamous letters in a court of justice, people are taught the wiles and stratagems to be used to accomplish these ends, and prevent detection; and also how to avoid those circumstances which have led to the detection of others. Every report of such matters is an experimental lecture on successful debauchery.
Blood toucheth blood. — Murders are not only frequent, but assassinations are mutual. Men go out to kill each other; as in our duels, the frenzy of cowards; and as there is no law regarded, and no justice in the land, the nearest akin slays the murderer. Even in our land, where duels are so frequent, if a man kill his antagonist, it is murder; and so generally brought in by an honest coroner and his jury. It is then brought into court; but who is hanged for it? The very murder is considered as an affair of honour, though it began in a dispute about a prostitute; and it is directed to be brought in manslaughter; and the murderer is slightly fined for having hurried his neighbour, perhaps once his friend, into the eternal world, with all his imperfections on his head! No wonder that a land mourns where these prevail; and that God should have a controversy with it. Such crimes as these are sufficient to bring God's curse upon any land. And how does God show his displeasure? See the following verse.
