Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They make many promises, take false oaths and make agreements; therefore lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field. New Living Translation They spout empty words and make covenants they don’t intend to keep. So injustice springs up among them like poisonous weeds in a farmer’s field. English Standard Version They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. Berean Standard Bible They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field. King James Bible They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. New King James Version They have spoken words, Swearing falsely in making a covenant. Thus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field. New American Standard Bible They speak mere words, With worthless oaths they make covenants; And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. NASB 1995 They speak mere words, With worthless oaths they make covenants; And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. NASB 1977 They speak mere words, With worthless oaths they make covenants; And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. Legacy Standard Bible They speak mere words; With worthless oaths they cut covenants; And judgment flourishes like gall in the furrows of the field. Amplified Bible They have spoken empty (disingenuous) words, Swearing falsely to make covenants [they intend to break]; Therefore, judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. Christian Standard Bible They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field. Holman Christian Standard Bible They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field. American Standard Version They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. Contemporary English Version Israel, you break treaties and don't keep promises; you turn justice into poisonous weeds where healthy plants should grow. English Revised Version They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. GOD'S WORD® Translation They say many things. They lie when they take oaths, and they make promises they don't intend to keep. That's why lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field. Good News Translation They utter empty words and make false promises and useless treaties. Justice has become injustice, growing like poisonous weeds in a plowed field. International Standard Version Their word is falsely given as they make their agreements; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field. Majority Standard Bible They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field. NET Bible They utter empty words, taking false oaths and making empty agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a plowed field. New Heart English Bible They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. Webster's Bible Translation They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. World English Bible They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThey have spoken words, "" To swear falsehood in making a covenant, "" And flourished as a poisonous herb has judgment, on the furrows of a field. Young's Literal Translation They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field. Smith's Literal Translation They spake words swearing falsehood, cutting out a covenant: and judgment broke forth as the head upon the furrows of the field. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleYou speak words of an unprofitable vision, and you shall make a covenant: and judgment shall spring up as bitterness in the furrows of the field. Catholic Public Domain Version You speak words about a useless vision, and you will strike a deal. And judgment will spring up like bitterness in the furrows of the field. New American Bible They make promises, swear false oaths, and make covenants, While lawsuits sprout like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field! New Revised Standard Version They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so litigation springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThey have spoken words belonging to false altars; they have broken the covenant and paid the penalty; they are like briers in a barren field. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated They have spoken words of false harvests; they have cut off the covenant and they paid judgment like a tangle of thorns in a field of barren land OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917They speak words, They swear falsely, they make covenants; Thus judgment springeth up as hemlock In the furrows of the field. Brenton Septuagint Translation and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions as his words? he will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Retribution for Israel's Sin…3Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?” 4They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field. 5The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile.… Cross References Jeremiah 7:9-10 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, / and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’? Isaiah 59:13-14 rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart. / So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter. Ezekiel 17:13-16 He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land, / so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to lift itself up, surviving only by keeping his covenant. / But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’ ... Zechariah 5:3-4 Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed. / I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.” Psalm 12:2-3 They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart. / May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue. Jeremiah 5:2 Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.” Isaiah 28:15 For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.” Micah 6:12 For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths. Amos 2:4 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked. Matthew 23:16-22 Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ / You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred? / And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.’ ... James 5:12 Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, so that you will not fall under judgment. Matthew 5:33-37 Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’ / But I tell you not to swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; / or by the earth, for it is His footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. ... Romans 1:31 They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. 2 Timothy 3:3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, 2 Peter 2:14 Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed. Treasury of Scripture They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. swearing. Hosea 6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. 2 Kings 17:3,4 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents… Ezekiel 17:13-19 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land: … thus. Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. Isaiah 59:13-15 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood… Jump to Previous Covenant Covenants Falsehood Falsely Field Fields Flourished Foolish Furrows Hemlock Herb Judgment Lawsuits Making Mere Oaths Ploughed Poisonous Promises Punishment Speak Spring Springeth Springs Sprouts Swear Swearing Utter Weeds Words WorthlessJump to Next Covenant Covenants Falsehood Falsely Field Fields Flourished Foolish Furrows Hemlock Herb Judgment Lawsuits Making Mere Oaths Ploughed Poisonous Promises Punishment Speak Spring Springeth Springs Sprouts Swear Swearing Utter Weeds Words WorthlessHosea 10 1. Israel is reproved and threatened for their impiety and idolatry, 12. and exhorted to repentance. They speak mere words This phrase highlights the insincerity and emptiness of the Israelites' promises and declarations. In the Hebrew text, the word for "mere" can imply vanity or worthlessness. Historically, Israel was often guilty of making vows or covenants with God that they did not intend to keep. This reflects a broader biblical theme where God desires genuine faithfulness and integrity over hollow words. The prophets frequently condemned such superficial religiosity, emphasizing that God sees beyond words to the heart's true intentions. with false oaths they make covenants so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field (a) "empty words," "false words," only words and no more, like the Latin verba alicui dare. Thus their vain, deceitful, lying words in private transactions and common affairs of everyday life would correspond to their perjury in public treaties and covenants. Their words were deceitful and their oaths falsehood. In their ordinary business transactions they used words, empty words, words without truth, corresponding thereto; in international concerns they had pursued the same course of falsifying and covenant-breaking. After entering into an engagement with the Assyrian king Shalmaneser, they made a covenant with So King of Egypt, as we read in 2 Kings 17:4, "And the King of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So King of Egypt, and brought no present to the King of Assyria, as he had done year by year." In this latter case they acted as covenant-breakers, and at the same time contravened the Divine command, which forbade them entering into covenants with foreigners. The first clause, however, is understood by some (b) in the sense of "deliberating.' Thus Kimchi understands it, erroneously referring it to Jeroboam and his countrymen; thus: "Jeroboam and his companions took counsel what they should do in order to strengthen the government in his hand, and they deliberated (or held consultation) that the people should not go up to Jerusalem to the house of the sanctuary; and for this purpose they bound themselves by oath and made a covenant. But their oath was a vain one, because their oath was intended to frustrate the words of the Law and the command of God, and to make images for their worship." The words אָללֺוֹת ָשוְא have been explained by some (1) as "oaths of vanity," that is, oaths by vanity or an idol, as an oath of Jehovah is an oath by Jehovah, אָלות being taken for a noun in the plural; . . . Hebrew They speakדִּבְּר֣וּ (dib·bə·rū) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue mere words; דְבָרִ֔ים (ḏə·ḇā·rîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause with false שָׁ֖וְא (šāw) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7723: Evil, idolatry, uselessness oaths אָל֥וֹת (’ā·lō·wṯ) Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute Strong's 422: To adjure, imprecate they make כָּרֹ֣ת (kā·rōṯ) Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute Strong's 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant covenants. בְּרִ֑ית (bə·rîṯ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 1285: A covenant So judgment מִשְׁפָּ֔ט (miš·pāṭ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style springs up וּפָרַ֤ח (ū·p̄ā·raḥ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6524: To break forth as a, bud, bloom, to spread, to fly, to flourish like poisonous weeds כָּרֹאשׁ֙ (kā·rōš) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7219: A poisonous plant, the poppy, poison in עַ֖ל (‘al) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against the furrows תַּלְמֵ֥י (tal·mê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 8525: A bank, terrace of a field. שָׂדָֽי׃ (śā·ḏāy) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7704: Field, land Links Hosea 10:4 NIVHosea 10:4 NLT Hosea 10:4 ESV Hosea 10:4 NASB Hosea 10:4 KJV Hosea 10:4 BibleApps.com Hosea 10:4 Biblia Paralela Hosea 10:4 Chinese Bible Hosea 10:4 French Bible Hosea 10:4 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Hosea 10:4 They make promises swearing falsely in making (Ho Hs Hos.) |
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