Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Holman Bible
taking false oaths while making covenants.
So lawsuits break out
like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
International Standard Version
Their word is falsely given as they make their agreements; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
A Conservative Version
They speak [vain] words, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
American Standard Version
They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Amplified
They have spoken empty (disingenuous) words,
Swearing falsely to make covenants [they intend to break];
Therefore, judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Bible in Basic English
Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.
Darby Translation
They speak mere words, swearing falsely in making a covenant; therefore shall judgment spring up as hemlock in the furrows of the fields.
Julia Smith Translation
They spake words swearing falsehood, cutting out a covenant: and judgment broke forth as the head upon the furrows of the field
King James 2000
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They utter words of vain oaths [when] {making covenants}, and judgment blossoms like a poisonous plant on the furrows of the field.
Modern King James verseion
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. So judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They commune together, and swear vain oaths: they be confederate together, therefore groweth their punishment, as the weeds in the furrows of the land.
NET Bible
They utter empty words, taking false oaths and making empty agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a plowed field.
The Emphasized Bible
They have spoken words, swearing falsely, in solemnizing a covenant, - therefore shall judgment, spring up like a poisonous plant, on the ridges of the field.
Webster
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
World English Bible
They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Youngs Literal Translation
They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 10:4
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Israel Is Punished
3 Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we do not fear the LORD; and the king, what can he do for us?" 4 They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. 5 The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.
Phrases
Cross References
Amos 5:7
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
2 Kings 17:3-4
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.
Ezekiel 17:13-19
and he took of the royal family, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;
Hosea 4:2
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
Deuteronomy 29:18
lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
Isaiah 59:13-15
transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Hosea 6:7
But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
Acts 8:23
For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."
Romans 1:31
foolish, promise-breakers, heartless, unmerciful;
2 Timothy 3:3
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, hateful of good,
Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
Revelation 8:10-11
The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.