Hosea 4:2

There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed. ¹ 

biblegateway Hos 4:2

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

biblegateway Hos 4:2

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

biblegateway Hos 4:2

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

biblegateway Hos 4:2

All this cussing and lying and killing, theft and loose sex, sheer anarchy, one murder after another!

SABDAweb Hos 4:2

There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

bibleoremus Hos 4:2

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

biblegateway Hos 4:2

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

biblegateway Hos 4:2

There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed. ¹ 

¹ tn Heb “they break out and bloodshed touches bloodshed.” The Hebrew term פָּרַץ (parats, “to break out”) refers to violent and wicked actions (BDB 829 s.v. פָּרַץ 7; HALOT 972 s.v. פרץ 6.c). It is used elsewhere in a concrete sense to describe breaking through physical barriers. Here it is used figuratively to describe breaking moral barriers and restraints (cf. TEV “Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another”).