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Hosea 4:2

2 By swearing and lying,

Killing and stealing and committing adultery,

They break all restraint,

With bloodshed 2upon bloodshed.

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Hosea 4:2 — The New International Version (NIV)

There is only cursing, lying and murder,

stealing and adultery;

they break all bounds,

and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 4:2 — English Standard Version (ESV)

there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;

they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 4:2 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out,

And blood toucheth blood.

Hosea 4:2 — New Living Translation (NLT)

You make vows and break them;

you kill and steal and commit adultery.

There is violence everywhere—

one murder after another.

Hosea 4:2 — New Century Version (NCV)

Cursing, lying, killing, stealing and adultery are everywhere.

One murder follows another.

Hosea 4:2 — American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Hosea 4:2 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, —they break out; and blood toucheth blood.

Hosea 4:2 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

There is cursing, lying, murdering, stealing, and adultery. 

People break ⸤my laws⸥, and there is one murder after another. 

Hosea 4:2 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Cursing, lying, murder, stealing,

and adultery are rampant;

one act of bloodshed follows another.

Hosea 4:2 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Swearing, lying, and murder,

and stealing and adultery break out;

bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 4:2 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Swearing and lying,

murdering and stealing,

and adultery break out,

and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 4:2 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

People call down curses on others.

They tell lies and commit murder.

They steal and commit adultery.

They break all of my laws.

They keep on spilling the blood of others.

Hosea 4:2 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery.

They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.


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