Hosea 4:2 Parallel Translations

There is cursing, lying, murdering, stealing, and adultery. People break my laws, and there is one murder after another.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

BBE:

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.

DBY:

Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out; and blood toucheth blood.

ERV:

There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

JPS:

Swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery! they break all bounds, and blood toucheth blood.

WBS:

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

WEB:

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

YLT:

Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

Hosea 4:2 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 4:8 Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

Deuteronomy 5:11 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:18 'You shall not commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5:19 'You shall not steal.

Hosea 6:8 Gilead is a city of wrongdoers, Tracked with bloody footprints.

Hosea 6:9 And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed crime.

Hosea 7:1 When I would heal Israel, The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, And the evil deeds of Samaria, For they deal falsely; The thief enters in, Bandits raid outside,

Hosea 7:3 With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies.

Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker Who ceases to stir up the fire From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Hosea 10:4 They speak mere words, With worthless oaths they make covenants; And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Hosea 10:13 You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, You have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your way, in your numerous warriors,

Hosea 11:12 Ephraim surrounds Me with lies And the house of Israel with deceit; Judah is also unruly against God, Even against the Holy One who is faithful.

Hosea 12:14 Ephraim has provoked to bitter anger; So his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him And bring back his reproach to him. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and {b} blood toucheth blood.
(b) In every place appears a liberality to most wicked vices, so that one follows right after another.

WES:

4:2 Break out - As waters that swell above all banks. Toucheth blood - Slaughters are multiplied; so that the end of one is the beginning of another.

MHC:

4:1-5 Hosea reproves for immorality, as well as idolatry. There was no truth, mercy, or knowledge of God in the land: it was full of murders, 2Ki 21:16. Therefore calamities were near, which would desolate the country. Our sins, as separate persons, as a family, as a neighbourhood, as a nation, cause the Lord to have a controversy with us; let us submit and humble ourselves before Him, that he may not go on to destroy.

CONC:

Adultery Attacks Blood Bloodshed Boundaries Bounds Break Breaking Broken Causes Committing Cursing Death Deception Employ Faith Follows Houses Increased Killing Lying Married Murder Murdering Nought Property Stealing Swearing Touched Toucheth Touching Untrue Violence Violent

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