Hosea 10:4
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Cross-references
Hosea 6:7 also condemns Israel for breaking the covenant like Adam, directly reinforcing the covenant violation theme here.
Deuteronomy 29:18 warns of a root producing gall and wormwood—the same poisonous plant imagery for covenant rebellion.
2 Kings 17:4 reveals Hoshea's secret alliance with Egypt, illustrating the treacherous covenant-breaking condemned here.
Isaiah 5:7 depicts God seeking justice but finding bloodshed, just as Hosea says judgment springs up as poison.
Isaiah 59:13-15 describes lying words, failed justice, and truth fallen—identical themes of empty covenants and perverted judgment.
Ezekiel 17:13-19 describes Zedekiah's broken oath to Babylon, mirroring the false covenants and judgment in Hosea.
Amos 5:7 accuses Israel of turning justice into wormwood, using the same poison metaphor for perverted judgment as Hosea.
Amos 6:12 uses the same image of justice turned into poison and wormwood, reinforcing Hosea's theme of corrupted judgment from false oaths.
Romans 1:31 lists 'covenant-breakers' as a mark of depravity, echoing the same sin Hosea accuses Israel of.
2 Timothy 3:3 includes 'trucebreakers' (covenant-breakers) among end-time sins, directly paralleling Hosea's charge.
Jeremiah 5:2 condemns swearing falsely by the Lord's name—the same false-oath context as Hosea's 'they speak mere words, with false oaths make covenants.'
Ezekiel 17:16 condemns despising an oath and breaking a covenant—echoing Hosea's theme of false oaths and covenant-breaking.
Habakkuk 1:4 laments that justice is perverted and the law paralyzed—parallel to Hosea's judgment springing up as poisonous weeds from deceit.