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Hosea 4:2

Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

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ASV

There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

KJV

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

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אָלֹ֣ה'a.LohcursingH422 →
וְכַחֵ֔שׁve.kha.Cheshand deceivingH3584 →
וְרָצֹ֥חַve.ra.Tzo.achand murderingH7523 →
וְגָנֹ֖בve.ga.Noand stealingH1589 →
וְנָאֹ֑ףve.na.'Ofand committing adulteryH5003 →
פָּרָ֕צוּpa.Ra.tzupeople have broken outH6555 →
וְדָמִ֥יםve.da.Mimand blood<s>H1818 →
בְּדָמִ֖יםbe.da.Mim<in> blood<s>H1818 →
נָגָֽעוּ׃na.Ga.'uthey have touchedH5060 →

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Ephesians 4:28He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.Hosea 6:9Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.Nahum 3:1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.Psalms 59:12By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,Micah 7:2The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.Jeremiah 6:7As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.Jeremiah 9:2If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.Ezekiel 22:9Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.Jeremiah 5:7–9“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.Jeremiah 7:6–10if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,Hosea 7:1When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.Jeremiah 5:26–27For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.Deuteronomy 28:30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.Ezekiel 21:24Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, exposing your transgressions, so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds—because you have come to remembrance—you shall be taken in hand.Ezekiel 22:2“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominationsEphesians 4:25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.Psalms 51:14Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.

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