KJV King James Version
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
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Hosea 4:2
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
WEB World English Bible
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
ASV 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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery—have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
Surrounding context — Hosea 4
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people [are] as they that strive with the priest.
5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
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Hosea 6:9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.Jeremiah 6:7As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually [is] grief and wounds.1 Thessalonians 2:15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:Micah 7:2The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.Hosea 7:1When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers spoileth without.Jeremiah 5:7-9How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.Jeremiah 7:6-10[If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:Jeremiah 5:26-27For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.Micah 6:10Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?Hosea 5:2And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I [have been] a rebuker of them all.Jeremiah 23:10-14For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force [is] not right.Zechariah 7:9Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:Micah 3:2Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;Zechariah 5:3Then said he unto me, This [is] the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off [as] on that side according to it.Ezekiel 22:2-13Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.Micah 3:9Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.Hosea 10:4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.Zephaniah 3:1Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
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