Hosea 4:2 — Compare Translations

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There is nothing but [false] swearing and breaking faith and killing and stealing and committing adultery; they break out [into violence], one [deed of] bloodshed following close on another.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

There is nothing but [false] swearing and breaking faith and killing and stealing and committing adultery; they break out [into violence], one [deed of] bloodshed following close on another.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

They curse people, they tell lies, they murder people, they rob people. They are guilty of adultery. They continue to kill more and more people.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

They swear, lie, kill, and steal. They commit the sin of adultery and have their babies. They murder one person after another

there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another.

English God's Word - GW 1995

There is cursing, lying, murdering, stealing, and adultery. People break {my laws}, and there is one murder after another.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

There is swearing of oaths, deception, murder, stealing, and adultery. They break forth in violence so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Swearing, lying, and killing, and stealing and adultery break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

False swearing, lying, murder, stealing and adultery! in their lawlessness, bloodshed follows bloodshed.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

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.

English NIV

There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

English NKJ 1982

By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed.

English NLT

You curse and lie and kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere, with one murder after another.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Your crimes are these: cursing others, lying, breaking your promises, murdering, stealing, and committing adultery. You have no moral decency, and bloodshed is the order of the day.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds and murder follows murder.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

You swear and lie and kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere, with one murder after another.

English Tyndale 1537

but swearing, lying, manslaughter, theft, and advoutry have gotten the overhand, and one bloodguiltyness followeth another.