Hosea 10:4 Cross References

Hosea 10:4

4: They spout empty words and make promises they don't intend to keep. So perverted justice springs up among them like poisonous weeds in a farmer's field.

Amos 5:7

  1. You wicked people! You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the poor and oppressed. Righteousness and fair play are meaningless fictions to you.

Hosea 4:2

  1. You curse and lie and kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere, with one murder after another.

Amos 6:12

  1. Can horses gallop over rocks? Can oxen be used to plow rocks? Stupid even to ask--but that's how stupid you are when you turn justice into poison and make bitter the sweet fruit of righteousness.

2 Kings 17:3

  1. King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked and defeated King Hoshea, so Israel was forced to pay heavy annual tribute to Assyria.
  2. Then Hoshea conspired against the king of Assyria by asking King So of Egypt to help him shake free of Assyria's power and by refusing to pay the annual tribute to Assyria. When the king of Assyria discovered this treachery, he arrested him and put him in prison for his rebellion.

Ezekiel 17:13

  1. He made a treaty with a member of the royal family and made him take an oath of loyalty. He also exiled Israel's most influential leaders,
  2. so Israel would not become strong again and revolt. Only by keeping her treaty with Babylon could Israel maintain her national identity.
  3. "Nevertheless, this man of Israel's royal family rebelled against Babylon, sending ambassadors to Egypt to request a great army and many horses. Can Israel break her sworn treaties like that and get away with it?
  4. No! For as surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, the king of Israel will die in Babylon, the land of the king who put him in power and whose treaty he despised and broke.
  5. Pharaoh and all his mighty army will fail to help Israel when the king of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem again and destroys the lives of many.

Acts 8:23

  1. for I can see that you are full of bitterness and held captive by sin."

Deuteronomy 29:18

  1. The LORD made this covenant with you so that no man, woman, family, or tribe among you would turn away from the LORD our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you would bear bitter and poisonous fruit.

2 Timothy 3:3

  1. They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control; they will be cruel and have no interest in what is good.

Isaiah 59:13

  1. We know that we have rebelled against the LORD. We have turned our backs on God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.
  2. Our courts oppose people who are righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth falls dead in the streets, and fairness has been outlawed.
  3. Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who tries to live a godly life is soon attacked. The LORD looked and was displeased to find that there was no justice.

Revelation 8:10

  1. Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and a great flaming star fell out of the sky, burning like a torch. It fell upon one-third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
  2. The name of the star was Bitterness. It made one-third of the water bitter, and many people died because the water was so bitter.

Hosea 6:7

  1. "But like Adam, you broke my covenant and rebelled against me.

Romans 1:31

  1. They refuse to understand, break their promises, and are heartless and unforgiving.

Isaiah 5:7

  1. This is the story of the LORD's people. They are the vineyard of the LORD Almighty. Israel and Judah are his pleasant garden. He expected them to yield a crop of justice, but instead he found bloodshed. He expected to find righteousness, but instead he heard cries of oppression.

Hebrews 12:15

  1. Look after each other so that none of you will miss out on the special favor of God. Watch out that no bitter root of unbelief rises up among you, for whenever it springs up, many are corrupted by its poison.
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