Hosea 10:4

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Summary

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

Swearing

2 Timothy 3:3

Thus

Bible References

Swearing

But, they, like Adam, have transgressed a covenant, - There, have they dealt treacherously with me.

Against him, came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria, - and Hoshea became his servant, and rendered him a present.

Yea took of the seed royal And solemnised with him a covenant, And brought him into an oath, Also the mighty ones of the land, did he take.

Without discernment, regardless of covenants, without natural affection, unmerciful: -

without natural affection, accepting no truce, given to intrigue, without self-control, uncivilized, unfriendly to good men,

Thus

Lest there be among you - a man or a woman or a family or a tribe, whose heart is turning to-day, from Yahweh our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations, - lest there be among you a root fruitful of poison and wormwood;

Surely the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts, is the house of Israel, And, the men of Judah, are the plantation in which he dearly delighted, - And he waited, For equity but lo! murderous iniquity, For the rule of right but lo the cry of the wronged.

Transgressing, and denying Yahweh, And turning away from following our God, - Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving, and muttering from the heart, words of falsehood.

Ye who turn, into, wormwood, justice, and, righteousness - to the ground have let fall.

Shall horses run upon crag? or will a man plough there with oxen? For ye have turned to poison the sentence of justice, and the fruit of righteousness, to wormwood:

For see that thou servest as a gall-root of bitterness, and a bond of unrighteousness.

Using oversight - lest any one be falling behind from the favour of God, - lest any root of bitterness, springing up above, be causing trouble, and, through it, the many, be defiled:

And, the third messenger, sounded; and there fell, out of heaven, a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters.