Hosea 12:7
The merchants among you use scales that do not weigh correctly; they love/like to cheat people.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 49:18Then Jacob prayed, “Yahweh, I am waiting for you to rescue me from my enemies.”
1 Samuel 12:3Now tell me, while Yahweh is listening, and while the king whom he has chosen is listening: whose ox or donkey have I stolen during all those years? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed/treated badly? From whom have I accepted a bribe, in order that I would ignore the evil things he had done? If I have done any of those things, tell me, and I will pay back what I owe.”
Proverbs 16:11Yahweh wants us to use scales that are correct; the weights in his bag are correct, because he made them.
Isaiah 56:1Yahweh says to all the people of Judah, “Do the things that are fair and just, because I will soon come to rescue [DOU] you.
Ezekiel 22:29The Israeli people force others to give them money, and they rob people. They oppress poor [DOU] people, and they mistreat foreigners among them by not treating them fairly in the courts.
Joel 2:12But Yahweh says, “In spite of these disasters that you have experienced, you can return to me with all your inner beings. Weep, and mourn, and ◄fast/abstain from eating food► to show that you are sorry for having abandoned me.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 12:2-7
The Crimes of Israel and Judah; Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 723.) 1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. 2 The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. 3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: 4 Yea, he had power over the… Read the whole commentary →