Hosea 6:7
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
In Context
6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
8Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.
Cross References
Genesis 3:11And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?
2 Kings 17:15And they rejected his ordinances and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.
Isaiah 24:5And the earth is infected by the in- habitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 48:8Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.
Jeremiah 5:11For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have greatly transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 31:32dummy verses inserted by amos
Matthew Henry on Hosea 6:5-11
Promises and Expostulations; The Crimes of the People. ( b. c. 758.) 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there… Read the whole commentary →