Hosea 4:2

New International Version

²There is only cursing,^[a] lying^(A) and murder,^(B)
stealing^(C) and adultery;^(D)
they break all bounds,
and bloodshed follows bloodshed.^(E)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

Hosea 4:2 That is, to pronounce a curse on

Hosea 4:2 in all English translations

Hosea 4:3

New International Version

³Because of this the land dries up,^(A)
and all who live in it waste away;^(B)
the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
and the fish in the sea are swept away.^(C)

Read full chapter

Hosea 4:3 in all English translations

Zechariah 5:3

New International Version

³And he said to me, “This is the curse^(A) that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief^(B) will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely^(C) will be banished.

Read full chapter

Zechariah 5:3 in all English translations

Zechariah 5:4

New International Version

⁴The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely^(A) by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.^(B)’”

Read full chapter

Zechariah 5:4 in all English translations

Malachi 3:5

New International Version

⁵“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers,^(A) adulterers^(B) and perjurers,^(C) against those who defraud laborers of their wages,^(D) who oppress the widows^(E) and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners^(F) among you of justice, but do not fear^(G) me,” says the Lord Almighty.