Hosea 4:2 Cross References - MLV

² There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith and killing and stealing and committing adultery. They break out and blood touches blood.

⁵ The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

¹ Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Jehovah and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

² But your* iniquities have separated between you* and your* God and your* sins have hid his face from you* so that he will not hear.
³ For your* hands are defiled with blood and your* fingers with iniquity. Your* lips have spoken lies. Your* tongue mutters wickedness. ⁴ No man sues in righteousness and no man pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring forth wickedness. ⁵ They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web. He who eats of their eggs dies and what is crushed breaks out into a viper. ⁶ Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of wickedness and the act of violence is in their hands.
⁷ Their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness. Desolation and destruction are in their paths. ⁸ They do not know the way of peace and there is no justice in their goings. They have made them crooked paths. Whoever goes in it does not know peace.

¹² For our transgressions are multiplied before you and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us and as for our iniquities, we know them: ¹³ transgressing and denying Jehovah and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
¹⁴ And justice is turned away backward and righteousness stands afar off. For truth has fallen in the street and uprightness cannot enter. ¹⁵ Yes, truth is lacking and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
And Jehovah saw it and it displeased him that there was no justice.

¹ Run you* to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seek in the broad places of it, if you* can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth and I will pardon her. ² And though they say, As Jehovah lives, surely they swear falsely.

⁷ How can I pardon you? Your sons have forsaken me and sworn by those who are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses. ⁸ They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? says Jehovah. And will not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. ²⁷ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.

⁷ As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Continually before me is sickness and wounds.

⁶ if you* do not oppress the traveler, the fatherless and the widow and shed not innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your* own hurt, ⁷ then I will cause you* to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your* fathers from of old to everlasting.
⁸ Behold, you* trust in lying words, that cannot profit. ⁹ Will you* steal, murder and commit adultery and swear falsely and burn incense to Baal and walk after other gods that you* have not known, ¹⁰ and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name and say, We are delivered, that you* may do all these abominations?

² Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. ³ And they bend their tongue–their bow–for falsehood and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil and they do not know me, says Jehovah.
⁴ You* take heed each one of his neighbor and trust you* not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant and every neighbor will go about with gossipers. ⁵ And they will deceive each one his neighbor and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They inwardly set up an ambush. ⁶ Your habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says Jehovah.
⁷ Therefore Jehovah of hosts says thus: Behold, I will melt them and try them, for how else should I do, because of the daughter of my people? ⁸ Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit. He speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies wait for him.

¹⁰ For the land is full of adulterers. For because of swearing the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil and their might is not right. ¹¹ For both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness, says Jehovah.
¹² Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on and fall in it. For I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, says Jehovah.
¹³ And I have seen foolishness in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal and made my people Israel go-astray. ¹⁴ In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing. They commit adultery and walk in lies. And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They have all of them become to me as Sodom and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.

¹³ It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

² And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
³ And you will say, The lord Jehovah says thus: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come and who makes idols against herself to defile her! ⁴ You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed and are defiled in your idols which you have made. And you have caused your days to draw near and have come even to your years.
Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the countries. ⁵ Those that are near and those that are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.
⁶ Behold, the rulers of Israel, each one according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. ⁷ In you they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of you they have dealt with the traveler by oppression. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. ⁸ You have despised my holy things and have profaned my Sabbaths. ⁹ Slanderers have been in you to shed blood and in you they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of you they have committed lewdness. ¹⁰ In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness. In you they have humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. ¹¹ And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
¹² In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. And you have greedily gained from your neighbors by oppression and have forgotten me, says the lord Jehovah.
¹³ Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.

²⁵ There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst of it.
²⁶ Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, nor have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths and I am profaned among them.
²⁷ Her rulers in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
²⁸ And her prophets have daubed with untempered mortar for them, seeing false visions and divining lies to them, saying, The lord Jehovah says thus, when Jehovah has not spoken.
²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have distressed the poor and needy man and have oppressed the traveler wrongfully.
³⁰ And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

² And the revolters have gone deep in making slaughter, but I am a rebuker of them all.

⁹ And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem. Yes, they have committed wickedness.

¹ When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered and the wickedness of Samaria. For they commit falsehood and the thief enters in and the troop of robbers ravages outside.

³ They make the king glad with their wickedness and the rulers with their lies.

⁴ They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

¹⁴ Ephraim has provoked to anger most bitterly. Therefore his blood will be left upon him and his reproach his Lord will return to him.

¹ Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. ² And they desire fields and seize them and houses and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
³ Therefore Jehovah says thus: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which you* will not remove your* necks, nor will you* walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

² You* who hate the good and love the evil, who pluck off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones,

⁹ Hear this, I beseech you*, you* heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity.

¹⁰ Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and a scant measure that is indignant?

² The devout man has perished out of the earth and there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.

¹ Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city!

³ Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals will be cut off on the one side according to it and everyone who swears will be cut off on the other side according to it.

⁹ Thus Jehovah of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute true justice and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

³⁵ so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who proclaimed beforehand God’s message concerning the coming of the Righteous One; of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

¹⁵ The Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and banished us, and were not pleasing to God, and are adverse to all men;

⁶ And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the holy-ones and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I marveled when I saw her– with great marvel!