Hosea 4:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

New Living Translation
You make vows and break them; you kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere— one murder after another.

English Standard Version
there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Berean Study Bible
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

New American Standard Bible
There is oath-taking, denial, murder, stealing, and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

NASB 1995
There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

NASB 1977
There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing, and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Amplified Bible
There is [false] swearing of oaths, deception (broken faith), murder, stealing, and adultery; They employ violence, so that one [act of] bloodshed follows closely on another.

Christian Standard Bible
Cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

Contemporary English Version
Cursing, dishonesty, murder, robbery, unfaithfulness--these happen all the time. Violence is everywhere.

Good News Translation
They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
There is cursing, lying, murdering, stealing, and adultery. People break [my laws], and there is one murder after another.

International Standard Version
Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood.

NET Bible
There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

New King James Version
By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed.

King James 2000 Bible
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break all restraint, and bloodshed touches bloodshed.

New Heart English Bible
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

World English Bible
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

American King James Version
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood touches blood.

American Standard Version
There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

A Faithful Version
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery they break out; and blood touches blood.

Darby Bible Translation
Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, -- they break out; and blood toucheth blood.

English Revised Version
There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Webster's Bible Translation
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring they breake out, and blood toucheth blood.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But swearing, lying, manslaughter, theft, and adulterie, hath gotten the ouer hande, and one bloodgiltinesse foloweth another.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
but swearinge, lyege, maslaughter, theft and aduoutry haue gotten the ouerhande, & one bloudgiltynesse foloweth another.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, "" And stealing, and committing adultery—have increased, "" And blood has touched against blood.

Young's Literal Translation
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

Smith's Literal Translation
Swearing and lying, and breaking in pieces, and stealing and committing adultery, they broke forth; and bloods touched upon bloods.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Slander, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery have overflowed, and bloodshed has brought more bloodshed.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
A curse and lying and murder and theft and adultery have increased, and they have mixed blood with blood

Lamsa Bible
But cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they have increased and they mix blood with blood.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery! They break all bounds, and blood toucheth blood.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.
















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