Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
They employ violence, so that
King James Version
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Holman Bible
and adultery
one act of bloodshed follows another.
International Standard Version
Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood.
A Conservative Version
There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery. They break out, and blood touches blood.
American Standard Version
There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Amplified
There is [false] swearing of oaths, deception (broken faith), murder, stealing, and adultery;
They employ violence, so that one [act of] bloodshed follows closely on another.
Bible in Basic English
There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
Darby Translation
Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out; and blood toucheth blood.
Julia Smith Translation
Swearing and lying, and breaking in pieces, and stealing and committing adultery, they broke forth; and bloods touched upon bloods.
King James 2000
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break all restraint, and bloodshed touches bloodshed.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Swearing and lying, murdering and stealing, and adultery break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Modern King James verseion
There is lying, and swearing, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery; and blood touches blood.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
but swearing, lying, manslaughter, theft, and adultery have gotten the overhand; and one bloodguiltiness followeth another.
NET Bible
There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.
New Heart English Bible
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
The Emphasized Bible
Cursing and lying, and killing and stealing, and committing adultery, have broken forth, and, blood-shedding, unto blood-shedding, doth extend.
Webster
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
World English Bible
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
Youngs Literal Translation
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
Themes
Adultery » The reward for committing adultery
Knowledge » The reward for lacking knowledge
Lying » Often accompanied by gross crimes
Lying/lies » The reward for lying
Oaths » The jews » Condemned for profane
Rejection » The reward for rejecting knowledge
Rejection » Who the lord rejects
profane Swearing » Nations visited for
Theft » The reward for stealing
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 4:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Has An Indictment
1
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;
2
They employ violence, so that
Cross References
Hosea 6:9
As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy.
Jeremiah 5:26-27
For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
Jeremiah 6:7
As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.
Hosea 7:1
When I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria; for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.
Micah 7:2
The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 48:1
Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.
Isaiah 59:2-8
but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Isaiah 59:12-15
For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:
Jeremiah 5:1-2
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.
Jeremiah 5:7-9
"How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of whores.
Jeremiah 7:6-10
if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,
Jeremiah 9:2-8
Oh that I had in the desert a travelers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.
Jeremiah 23:10-14
For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right.
Lamentations 4:13
This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.
Ezekiel 22:2-13
"And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
Ezekiel 22:25-30
The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
Hosea 5:2
And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.
Hosea 7:3
By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.
Hosea 10:4
They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Hosea 12:14
Ephraim has given bitter provocation; so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds.
Micah 2:1-3
Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 3:2
you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,
Micah 3:9
Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,
Micah 6:10
Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?
Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!
Zechariah 5:3
Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.
Zechariah 7:9
"Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.When I saw her, I marveled greatly.