Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.Hosea 4:2 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleBy swearing, and lying - Where there is no truth there will be lies and perjury; for false swearing is brought in to confirm lying statements. And when there is no mercy, killing, slaying, and murders, will be frequent. And where there is no knowledge of God, no conviction of his omnipresence and omniscience, private offenses, such as stealing, adulteries, etc., will prevail. These, sooner or later, break out, become a flood, and carry all before them. Private stealing will assume the form of a public robbery, and adulteries become fashionable, especially among the higher orders; and suits of crim. con. render them more public, scandalous, and corrupting. By the examination of witnesses, and reading of infamous letters in a court of justice, people are taught the wiles and stratagems to be used to accomplish these ends, and prevent detection; and also how to avoid those circumstances which have led to the detection of others. Every report of such matters is an experimental lecture on successful debauchery.
Blood toucheth blood - Murders are not only frequent, but assassinations are mutual. Men go out to kill each other; as in our duels, the frenzy of cowards; and as there is no law regarded, and no justice in the land, the nearest akin slays the murderer. Even in our land, where duels are so frequent, if a man kill his antagonist, it is murder; and so generally brought in by an honest coroner and his jury. It is then brought into court; but who is hanged for it? The very murder is considered as an affair of honor, though it began in a dispute about a prostitute; and it is directed to be brought in manslaughter; and the murderer is slightly fined for having hurried his neighbor, perhaps once his friend, into the eternal world, with all his imperfections on his head! No wonder that a land mourns where these prevail; and that God should have a controversy with it. Such crimes as these are sufficient to bring God's curse upon any land. And how does God show his displeasure? See the following verse.
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Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance...
Isaiah 48:1 Hear you this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah...
Isaiah 59:2-8,12-15 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear...
Jeremiah 5:1,2,7-9,26,27 Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man...
Jeremiah 6:7 As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her...
Jeremiah 7:6-10 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place...
Jeremiah 9:2-8 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people...
Jeremiah 23:10-14 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up...
Ezekiel 22:2-13,25-30 Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? yes, you shall show her all her abominations...
Micah 2:1-3 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it...
Micah 3:2,9 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones...
Micah 6:10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Micah 7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood...
Zephaniah 3:1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Zechariah 5:3 Then said he to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth...
Zechariah 7:9 Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
blood. Heb. bloods. toucheth.
Hosea 5:2 And the rebels are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
Hosea 6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
Lamentations 4:13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her,
Matthew 23:35 That on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth...
Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One...
1 Thessalonians 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her...
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