Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
He loves to oppress.
King James Version
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Holman Bible
with dishonest scales in his hands.
International Standard Version
"Now as for the merchant, deceitful balances remain in his hand, and he loves to defraud.
A Conservative Version
[He is] a Canaanite. The balances of deceit are in his hand. He loves to oppress.
American Standard Version
He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Amplified
A merchant, in whose hand are false and fraudulent balances;
He loves to oppress and exploit.
Bible in Basic English
As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
Darby Translation
He is a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.
Julia Smith Translation
Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress.
King James 2000
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] trader, in his hand [are] scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.
Modern King James verseion
He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But the merchant hath a false weight in his hand, he hath a pleasure to occupy extortion.
NET Bible
The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.
New Heart English Bible
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
The Emphasized Bible
A trafficker! in his hand, are balances of deceit, to oppress, he loveth.
Webster
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
World English Bible
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Youngs Literal Translation
Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 12:7
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Context Readings
Further Words Of Judgment
6
Therefore be thou converted unto thy God; keep mercy and judgment, and in thy God wait continually.
7
He loves to oppress.
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Cross References
Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
Leviticus 19:35-36
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measurement of land, in weight, or in other measure.
1 Samuel 12:3
Behold, here I am; witness against me before the LORD and before his anointed. If I have taken anyone's ox or if I have taken anyone's ass or if I have defrauded anyone or if I have oppressed anyone or if I have received a bribe from anyone to blind my eyes, I will restore it you.
Proverbs 16:11
A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
Isaiah 3:5
And the people shall do violence, one against another, and each one against his neighbour; the child shall rise up against the ancient and the base against the honourable.
Ezekiel 16:3
and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said concerning Jerusalem: Thy habitation and thy race was of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite and thy mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have done violence unto the poor and needy; they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Amos 2:7
desiring that there be dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and to twist the way of the humble: and the man and his father have gone in unto the same maid, profaning my holy name:
Amos 3:9
Publish upon the palaces of Ashdod and upon the palaces of the land of Egypt and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria and behold the great oppression in the midst thereof and the great violence in the midst thereof.
Amos 4:1
Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Amos 5:11
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat, ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Amos 8:5-6
saying, When the month is over, we will sell the wheat; and after the sabbath day we will open the storehouse of bread, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit;
Micah 2:1
Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands.
Micah 3:1-3
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O princes of Jacob, and ye heads of the house of Israel. Did it not pertain to you to know that which is right?
Micah 6:10-11
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable?
Micah 7:2
The merciful man of the earth is missing: and there is no one upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt each man his brother with a net.
Zechariah 14:21
And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of the hosts; and all those that sacrifice shall come and take of them and cook therein; and in that time there shall be no more merchandizing in the house of the LORD of the hosts.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near unto you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.
John 2:16
and said unto those that sold the doves, Take these things away from here; do not make my Father's house a house of merchandise.
1 Timothy 6:9-10
For those that desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.