Hosea 10:4
They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
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swearing.

Hosea 6:7
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.

2 Kings 17:3, 4
Shalmaneser king of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute. . . .

Ezekiel 17:13-19
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, . . .

Romans 1:31
They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

2 Timothy 3:3
unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,

thus.

Deuteronomy 29:18
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight. He looked for justice but saw injustice; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

Isaiah 59:13-15
rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart. . . .

Amos 5:7
You who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground--

Amos 6:12
"Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood--

Acts 8:23
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity."

Hebrews 12:15
Be careful that no one falls short of the grace of God, so that no root of bitterness will spring up to cause trouble and defile many.

Revelation 8:10, 11
Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. . . .

Parallel Verses
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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