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

At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!

King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute.

He took one from the royal family, made a treaty with him, and put him under oath. He then took the leaders of the land

senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless.

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

Thus

Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the Lord our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit.

Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the Lord who commands armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got -- disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got -- cries for help!

We have rebelled and tried to deceive the Lord; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds.

The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant.

For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin."

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.

Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and a huge star burning like a torch fell from the sky; it landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.