Hosea 10:4 References

4 They speak mere words, With aworthless oaths they make covenants; And bjudgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

a Ezekiel 17:13-19, Hosea 4:2


Ezekiel 17

13 'He took one of the royal afamily and made a covenant with him, putting him under boath. He also took away the cmighty of the land,
14 that the kingdom might abe in subjection, not exalting itself, but keeping his covenant that it might continue.
15 'But he arebelled against him by sending his envoys to Egypt that they might give him horses and many troops. Will he succeed? Will he who does such things bescape? Can he indeed break the covenant and escape?
16 'As I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'Surely in the country of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he adespised and whose covenant he broke, bin Babylon he shall die.
17 'aPharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in the war, when they cast up ramps and build siege walls to cut off many lives.
18 'Now he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold, he apledged his allegiance, yet did all these things; he shall not escape.'"
19 Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "As I live, surely My oath which he despised and My covenant which he broke, I will inflict on his head.

Hosea 4

2 There is aswearing, bdeception, cmurder, dstealing and eadultery. They employ violence, so that fbloodshed follows bloodshed.