Hosea 12:8
\12:7\As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
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7\12:6\So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:17Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.
Psalms 49:6\49:5\What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?
Psalms 62:10\62:9\Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.
Isaiah 10:13For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;
Jeremiah 2:35And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 12:8-14
Reproof for Sin; Judgment Threatened; Memorials of Divine Mercy. ( b. c. 723.) 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. 9 And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. 10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used… Read the whole commentary →