They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
Shalmaneser king of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.
He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the lead
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and
rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies
They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He look
unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and de
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third o