Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 10:4
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Context Readings
Israel Is Punished
3 For now they say: We have no king, Because we have not feared Jehovah, And the king -- what doth he for us? 4 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. 5 For the calves of Beth-Aven fear do inhabitants of Samaria, Surely mourned on account of it hath its people, And its priests on account of it leap about, Because of its honour, for it hath removed from it,
Phrases
Cross References
Amos 5:7
Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,
2 Kings 17:3-4
against him came up Shalmaneser king of Asshur, and Hoshea is to him a servant, and doth render to him a present.
Ezekiel 17:13-19
And he taketh of the seed of the kingdom, And maketh with him a covenant, And bringeth him in to an oath, And the mighty of the land he hath taken,
Hosea 4:2
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
Amos 6:12
Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough it with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.
Deuteronomy 29:18
lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning to-day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root fruitful of gall and wormwood:
Isaiah 5:7
Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts Is the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.
Isaiah 59:13-15
Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.
Hosea 6:7
And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.
Acts 8:23
for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.'
Romans 1:31
unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;
2 Timothy 3:3
without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,
Hebrews 12:15
looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;
Revelation 8:10-11
And the third messenger did sound, and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it did fall upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters,