Hosea 4:2

There is cursing, lying, killing, stealing and adultery. 1 The people have broken all bounds, and bloodshed comes after bloodshed. 1

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By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

In Context

1Hear the word of Yahweh, you people of Israel. 1 Yahweh has a lawsuit against the inhabitants of the land, 1 because there is no truthfulness or covenantal faithfulness, no knowledge of God in the land. 1

3So the land is drying up, 1 and everyone living in it is wasting away; 1 the beasts in the fields and the birds in the sky, 1 even the fish in the sea, are being taken away.

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Cross References

Isaiah 24:5The earth is polluted by its inhabitants 1 because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, 1 and broken the everlasting covenant. 1

Isaiah 59:2Your sinful acts, however, have separated you from your God, 1 and your sins have made him hide his face from you and from hearing you. 1

Jeremiah 5:1“Rush about through the streets of Jerusalem; search in her city squares, too. Then look and think about this: 1 If you can find a man or anyone who is acting justly and trying to act faithfully, 1 then I will forgive Jerusalem. 1

Jeremiah 5:7Why should I pardon these people? 1 Your sons have abandoned me and have made oaths by what are not gods. 1 I fed them fully, but they committed adultery and walked in great numbers to the houses of prostitutes. 1

Jeremiah 6:7As a well pours out fresh water, so this city keeps producing wickedness. 1 Violence and disorder are heard within her; sickness and wounds are continually before my face. 1

Jeremiah 9:2If only someone would give me a place for travelers in the wilderness to stay, where I could go to abandon my people. 1 If only I could leave them, since all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors! 1

Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:2-6

The Sinfulness of Israel. ( b. c. 758.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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