Hosea 10:4 Parallel Translations
NASB: They speak mere words, With worthless oaths they make covenants; And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: They say many things. They lie when they take oaths, and they make promises they don't intend to keep. That's why lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
ASV: They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
BBE: Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.
DBY: They speak mere words, swearing falsely in making a covenant; therefore shall judgment spring up as hemlock in the furrows of the fields.
ERV: They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
JPS: They speak words, they swear falsely, they make covenants; thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
WBS: They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
WEB: They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
YLT: 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.
Hosea 10:4 Cross References
XREF:Deuteronomy 31:16 The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Deuteronomy 31:17 "Then My anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide My face from them, and they will be consumed, and many evils and troubles will come upon them; so that they will say in that day, 'Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have come upon us?'

2 Kings 17:3 Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute.

2 Kings 17:4 But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

Ezekiel 17:13 'He took one of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. He also took away the mighty of the land,

Hosea 4:2 There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Amos 5:7 For those who turn justice into wormwood And cast righteousness down to the earth." (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making {e} a covenant: thus {f} judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
(e) In promising to be faithful toward God.
(f) In this way their integrity and fidelity which they pretended, was nothing but bitterness and grief.
WES: 10:4 Words - Vain words. Swearing falsely - By perjury deceiving those they treated with. A covenant - With the Assyrian king. Judgment - Divine vengeance. As hemlock - A proverbial speech, expressing the greatness of this evil.
MHC: 10:1-8 A vine is only valuable for its fruit; but Israel now brought no fruit to perfection. Their hearts were divided. God is the Sovereign of the heart; he will have all, or none. Were the stream of the heart wholly after God, it would run strongly, and bear down all before it. Their pretences to covenant with God were false. Even the proceeding of justice was as poisonous hemlock. Alas, how empty a vine is the visible church even at this day! But all earthly prosperity is but a collection of bubbles, soon destroyed like foam upon the water. Sinners will in vain seek shelter from that Judge, whom they now despise as a Saviour.
CONC:FALSE Covenant Covenants Empty Falsehood Falsely Field Fields Flourished Foolish Furrows Hemlock Herb Judgment Lawsuits Making Mere Oaths Ploughed Plowed Poisonous Poison-plant Promises Punishment Speak Spoken Spring Springeth Springs Sprouts Swear Swearing Thus Utter Vain Weeds Worthless
PREV:Covenant Covenants Falsehood Falsely Field Fields Flourished Foolish Furrows Hemlock Herb Judgment Lawsuits Making Mere Oaths Ploughed Poisonous Promises Punishment Speak Spring Springeth Springs Sprouts Swear Swearing Utter Weeds Words Worthless
NEXT:Covenant Covenants Falsehood Falsely Field Fields Flourished Foolish Furrows Hemlock Herb Judgment Lawsuits Making Mere Oaths Ploughed Poisonous Promises Punishment Speak Spring Springeth Springs Sprouts Swear Swearing Utter Weeds Words Worthless
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