Devine Scripture

Hosea 12:7

Hosea chapter 12 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

He isa trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

He isa trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Context

v.6Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

v.7This passage

v.8And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Micah 3:1

    And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice?

  • James 5:4

    Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

  • 1 Samuel 12:3

    Here I am: witness against me before Jehovah, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

  • Ezekiel 22:29

    The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

  • Micah 2:1

    Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Micah 6:10

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