Hosea 4:2

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Summary

Hosea 4:2

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Swearing

Toucheth

Revelation 17:6

General references

Ezekiel 11:6

Bible References

Swearing

The earth lies defiled beneath its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

"Listen to this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and who have come forth from Judah's loins; you who swear oaths in the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel but not in truth, nor in good faith.

Instead, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you so that he won't listen.

"Wander through the streets of Jerusalem. Look and investigate; search through her squares and see whether you find anyone even one person there doing justice and seeking truth. Then I'll forgive them.

As a well keeps its waters fresh, so the city keeps her wickedness fresh. Violence and destruction are heard in her, sickness and wounds are always before me.

and if you don't oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, and don't shed an innocent person's blood in this place, and if you don't follow other gods to your own harm,

Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.

Indeed, the land is full of adulterers. Indeed, the land mourns because of the curse; the pastures of the wilderness have dried up. The adulterers' lifestyles are evil, and they use their strength for what is not right.

"Now, Son of Man, will you truly judge that blood-stained city? Then make her aware of all of her detestable practices.

"Woe to those who are crafting iniquity, planning evil well into the night! When morning's light comes, they carry out their plans because they have the power to do so.

you who despise good and love evil, who tear off the skin of my people, along with the flesh from their bones.

Are there still wicked treasures in the house of the wicked, along with deceitful and abominable measuring standards?

The faithful have died off, and there is not one upright human being in the land. They all stalk one another with lethal intent, a man will even hunt his own brother with a net.

Woe to this filthy, polluted, and oppressive city!

He responded to me, "This is the curse that is going out over the surface of the whole earth, because, according to this side of the scroll, all thieves will be ejected, and according to the other side of the scroll, all liars will be ejected."

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Administer true justice, and show gracious love and mercy toward each other.

Toucheth

The rebels are deep into their slaughter; I am punishing them all.

Like a gang of thieves that stalk a man, priests commit murder along the road to Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

Due to the sins committed by her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests who shed in her midst, the blood of the righteous,

As a result, you will be held accountable for all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Berechiah's son Zechariah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Which of the prophets did your ancestors fail to persecute? They killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who have persecuted us, and who please neither God nor any group of people,

I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. I was very surprised when I saw her.

General references

You've increased the number of fatally wounded in this city and you've filled your streets with the dead."