Hosea 10:4
Hosea chapter 10 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They speakvainwords, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They speakvainwords, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Context
v.3Surely now shall they say, We have no king; for we fear not Jehovah; and the king, what can he do for us?
v.4This passage
v.5The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 59:13
transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- 2 Timothy 3:3
without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
- Ezekiel 17:13
And he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;
- Amos 5:7
Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
- Acts 8:23
For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.
- Deuteronomy 29:18
lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;