Hosea 4:2 Cross References - ECB

² oathing and lying and murder and stealing and adulterizing separate; and blood touches blood.

⁵ and the earth is profaned under the settlers; because they trespassed the torah, passed over the statute, broke the eternal covenant.

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THE HARDNESS OF YISRA EL
Hear this, O house of Yaaqov - called by the name of Yisra El coming from the waters of Yah Hudah; who oaths by the name of Yah Veh and memorializes Elohim of Yisra El - neither in truth, nor in justness.

² but your perversities separate between you and between your Elohim; and your sins hide his face from hearing you. ³ For you profane your palms with blood and your fingers with perversity; your lips word falsehoods your tongue mutters wickedness: ⁴ no one calls for justness and no one pleads for trustworthiness: they confide in waste and word vanity; they conceive toil and birth mischief: ⁵ they split the eggs of the hisser, and weave the web of the spider: he who eats their eggs dies, and the crushed egg splits into a hisser. ⁶ Neither their webs become clothes, nor cover they themselves with their works: their works are works of mischief and the deed of violence is in their palms. ⁷ Their feet run to evil and they hasten to pour innocent blood: their fabrications are fabrications of mischief; ravage and breaking are in their highways: ⁸ the way of shalom they know not and there is no judgment in their route: they make them perverted paths; whoever treads therein knows not shalom.

¹² For our rebellions abound by the myriads in front of you; and our sins answer against us: for our rebellions are with us; and as for our perversities, we know them. ¹³ In rebelling and lying against Yah Veh; and departing from our Elohim: wording oppression and revolt; conceiving and muttering from the heart words of falsehood: ¹⁴ and judgment removes backward and justness stands afar off: for truth falters in the broadway and straightforwardness cannot enter. ¹⁵ Yes, truth lacks; and he who turns aside from evil, spoils: and Yah Veh sees, and it is evil in his eyes that there is no judgment.

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THE SEARCH FOR THE MAN WHO WORKS JUDGMENT
Flit through the outways of Yeru Shalem; and see, I beseech, and know; and seek in the broadways - if you find a man - if there be any who work judgment - who seek trustworthiness; and I forgive. ² And if they say, Yah Veh lives! - surely they oath falsely.

⁷ How forgive I you for this? Your sons forsake me, and oath by them who are non-elohim: when I oath them, they adulterize and troop in the whore houses: ⁸ they wander as nourished horses; every man sounds after the woman of his friend. ⁹ Visit I not for these? - an oracle of Yah Veh and avenge I not my soul on such a goyim as this?

²⁶ for wicked are found among my people: they observe, as he who weaves snares; they station a ruin, they captivate men: ²⁷ as a cage full of flyers, thus are their houses full of deceit: so they greaten and enrich;

⁷ As digging a well for waters, thus she digs her evil: violence and ravage is heard in her; at my face continually is sickness and wounds.

⁶ if you oppress not the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow, and pour not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after other elohim to your evil: ⁷ then I tabernacle you in this place in the land I gave to your fathers eternally and eternally. ⁸ Behold, you confide in false words that benefit not; ⁹ you steal, murder, and adulterize, and oath falsely and incense to Baal; and walk after other elohim whom you know not: ¹⁰ and then you come and stand at my face in this house on which my name is called, and say, We are rescued! in order to work all these abhorrences.

² Oh that it be, that I be in the wilderness as a lodging place of caravans; and I forsake my people and go from them; for they all adultererize - a private assembly who deals covertly: ³ and they bend their tongues as their bow for falsehood: and as for trustworthiness, they prevail not mightily on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil and they know me not - an oracle of Yah Veh. ⁴ On guard, every man, of his friend and confide not in any brother: for in tripping the heel every brother trips the heel; and every friend walks with talebearers: ⁵ and every man mocks his friend and words not the truth: they teach their tongue to word falsehoods and weary themselves to pervert. ⁶ You settle midst deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me - an oracle of Yah Veh. ⁷ So thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth, Behold, I refine them, and proof them; for how work I at the face of the daughter of my people? ⁸ Their tongue is a slaughtering arrow; wording deceit: wording shalom to his friend with his mouth, but setting his inwards to lurk.

¹⁰ For the land is filled with adulterers; for at the face of oathing, the land mourns; the folds of the wilderness wither and their race is evil; and their might, not right. ¹¹ For both prophet and priest profane; yes, in my house I found their evil - an oracle of Yah Veh. ¹² So their way is to them as slippery in the darkness: they are overthrown and fall therein: for I bring evil on them - the year of their visitation - an oracle of Yah Veh. ¹³ And I see frivolity in the prophets of Shomeron; they prophesy in Baal, and stray my people Yisra El: ¹⁴ and I see a horror in the prophets of Yeru Shalem; they adulterize and walk in falsehoods: yes, they strengthen the hands of vilifiers so that no man returns from his evil: they all are to me as Sedom and the settlers as Amorah.

¹³ Because of the sins of her prophets and the perversities of her priests, who pour the blood of the just in her midst,

² You, son of humanity, Judge you? Judge you the city of blood? Yes, have her know all her abhorrences, ³ saying, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: The city pours blood in its midst, so that her time approaches: and she works idols against herself to foul herself. ⁴ You guilt in that you pour blood; and foul yourself by the idols you work; and you cause your days to approach, and approach your years: so I give you - a reproach to the goyim and a ridicule to all lands. ⁵ The near, and the far from you, all ridicule you, O polluted of name and much confused. ⁶ Behold, the hierarchs of Yisra El, every man of you, according to his arm, pours blood: ⁷ in you they abase father and mother: in your midst they worked oppression with the sojourner: in you they vex the orphan and the widow. ⁸ You despise my holies and you profane my shabbaths: ⁹ in you are men - talebearers to pour blood: and in you they eat on the mountains: in your midst they work intrigue: ¹⁰ in you they expose the nakedness of their fathers: in you they debase her who was excluded for foulness. ¹¹ And every man works abhorrence with the woman of his friend: and every man intriguingly fouls his daughter in law: and every man in you debases his sister - the daughter of his father: ¹² in you they take bribes to pour blood: you take usury and bounty and you greedily gain of your friends by extortion: and forget me - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh. ¹³ And behold, I smite my palm at the greedy gain you work; and at your blood in your midst. ]

²⁵ - a conspiracy of prophets in her midst: as a roaring lion tearing the prey, they devour souls: they take the wealthy and esteemed; they abound her widows in her midst: ²⁶ her priests violate my torah and profane my holies: they neither separate between the holy and profane nor make known between the foul and the pure; and conceal their eyes from my shabbaths, and I am profaned among them. ²⁷ Her governors midst her are as wolves tearing the prey, to pour blood; to destroy souls; to greedily gain greedy gain: ²⁸ and her prophets daub them with slime - seers of vanity, divining lies to them, saying, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: when Yah Veh words not. ²⁹ The people of the land in oppressing, oppress; and in stripping, strip; and vex the humble and needy: yes, they oppress the sojourner without judgment. ³⁰ And I seek for a man among them, to wall up the wall, and stand in the breach at my face for the land to not ruin it: and I find no one:

² and the deviates deepen to slaughter, and I discipline them all.

⁹ and as troops await a man, a commune of priests murders in the way to Shechem: for they work intrigue.

¹ When I heal Yisra El, then I expose the perversity of Ephrayim and the evil of Shomeron; for they do falsehood: and the thief enters and the troop strips in the outways:

³ they cheer the sovereign with their evil and the governors with their deceptions:

⁴ They word words; oathing vainly in cutting a covenant: thus judgment springs as rosh in the furrows of the field:

¹⁴ Ephrayim vexes himself with bitterness: and he abandons his blood on him, and Adonay returns his reproach to him.

¹ Ho to them who fabricate mischief - who work evil on their beds! In the light of the morning, they work because it is in the el of their hand: ² and they desire fields and strip them; and houses, and bear them away: and oppress a mighty and his house - even a man and his inheritance. ³ So thus says Yah Veh: Behold, I fabricate an evil against this family from which you neither depart your necks nor go haughtily: for this is a time of evil.

² - Who hate the good and love the evil? Who strip their skin from off them and their flesh from off their bones?

⁹ Hear this, I beseech you, you heads of the house of Yaaqov and commanders of the house of Yisra El - who abhor judgment and pervert all straightness

¹⁰ Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked? And the emaciated ephah that enrages?

² the merciful destruct from the earth; and no one among humanity is straight: they all lurk for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net

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HO TO YERU SHALEM
Ho to her who rebels and profanes, - the oppressing city!

³ And he says to me, This is the oath going over the face of the whole earth: for every one who steals is exonerated as on this side, thus; and every one who oaths is exonerated as on that side, thus.

⁹ Thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth: saying, Judge judgment in truth, and every man, work mercy and mercies to his brother:

³⁵ so that all the just blood poured on the earth comes upon you - from the blood of just Abel - to the blood of Zechar Yah son of Berech Yah whom you murdered between the nave and the sacrifice altar.

⁵² Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they slaughtered them who pre-evangelized concerning the coming of the Just - of whom you now become traitors and murderers:

¹⁵ who slaughtered both Adonay Yah Shua and their own prophets and persecuted us; and they please not Elohim and are contrary to all humanity:

⁶ And I see the woman intoxicated from the blood of the holy and from the blood of the witnesses of Yah Shua: and when I see her I marvel a mega marvel.