Hosea 4:2

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Summary

Hosea 4:2

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

Swearing

Toucheth

Revelation 17:6

General references

Ezekiel 11:6

Bible References

Swearing

And the land is defiled under its people; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and have broken the everlasting covenant.

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Jehovah and make mention of the God of Israel (but not in truth nor in righteousness).

But your iniquities have come between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.

As a fountain keeps fresh her waters, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and spoil is heard in her; always before Me are grief and wounds.

if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt;

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for traveling men, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

For the land is full of adulterers. Yes, because of cursing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their power is not right.

And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? And you shall make her know all her abominations.

Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

You who hate the good and love the evil; who pull their skin off them, and their flesh from their bones;

Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is hateful?

The pious has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. For they all lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.

Woe to her rebelling and becoming defiled, to the oppressing city!

And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth; for from now on everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it; and everyone who swears from now on shall be cut off according to it.

So speaks Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Judge true judgment, and practice kindness and pity, each man to his brother.

Toucheth

And revolters have gone deep in slaughtering, and I chasten all of them.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, the company of priests murder in the way of Shechem; for they committed wickedness.

For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers;

who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men,

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with a great marveling.

General references

You have multiplied your dead in this city, and you have filled its streets with the dead.