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Hosea 4:2

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4:2There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery.

They resort to violence and bloodshed.5

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  1. 5 Heb “they break out and bloodshed touches bloodshed.” The Hebrew term פָּרַץ (parats, “to break out”) refers to violent and wicked actions ( 829 פָּרַץ 7; פרץ 6.c). It is used elsewhere in a concrete sense to describe breaking through physical barriers. Here it is used figuratively to describe breaking moral barriers and restraints (cf. “Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another”).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

There is only cursing, lying and murder,

stealing and adultery;

they break all bounds,

and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Cursing, lying, murder, stealing,

and adultery are rampant;

one act of bloodshed follows another.

NLTNew Living Translation

You make vows and break them;

you kill and steal and commit adultery.

There is violence everywhere—

one murder after another.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Swearing and lying,

murdering and stealing,

and adultery break out,

and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

KJV 1900King James Version

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

And blood toucheth blood.