Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Bible References

Swearing

Hosea 6:7
But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant;
There they have dealt treacherously against Me.
2 Kings 17:3
Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute.
Ezekiel 17:13
He took one of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. He also took away the mighty of the land,
Romans 1:31
without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;
2 Timothy 3:3
unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

Thus

Deuteronomy 29:18
so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel
And the men of Judah His delightful plant.
Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
Isaiah 59:13
Transgressing and denying the Lord,
And turning away from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.
Amos 5:7
For those who turn justice into wormwood
And cast righteousness down to the earth.”
Amos 6:12
Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one plow them with oxen?
Yet you have turned justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
Acts 8:23
For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”
Hebrews 12:15
See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;
Revelation 8:10
The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters.