Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood.

A Conservative Version

There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery. They break out, and blood touches blood.

American Standard Version

There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Amplified


There is [false] swearing of oaths, deception (broken faith), murder, stealing, and adultery;
They employ violence, so that one [act of] bloodshed follows closely on another.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Swearing and lying, and breaking in pieces, and stealing and committing adultery, they broke forth; and bloods touched upon bloods.

King James 2000

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break all restraint, and bloodshed touches bloodshed.

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

There is lying, and swearing, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery; and blood touches blood.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

but swearing, lying, manslaughter, theft, and adultery have gotten the overhand; and one bloodguiltiness followeth another.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

The Emphasized Bible

Cursing and lying, and killing and stealing, and committing adultery, have broken forth, and, blood-shedding, unto blood-shedding, doth extend.

Webster

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

World English Bible

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אלה 
'alah 
Usage: 7

and lying
כּחשׁ 
Kachash 
Usage: 23

and killing
רצח 
Ratsach 
Usage: 47

and stealing
גּנב 
Ganab 
Usage: 40

and blood
דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

נגע 
Naga` 
Usage: 150

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Yahweh Has An Indictment

1 Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife is to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land, 2 Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched. 3 Therefore mourn doth the land, And weak is every dweller in it, With the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the fishes of the sea -- they are removed.


Cross References

Hosea 6:9

And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.

Jeremiah 5:26-27

For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

Jeremiah 6:7

As the digging of a well, is for its waters, So she hath digged for her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Before My face continually are sickness and smiting.

Hosea 7:1

'When I give healing to Israel, Then revealed is the iniquity of Ephraim, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have wrought falsehood, And a thief doth come in, Stript off hath a troop in the street,

Micah 7:2

Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt with a net.

Isaiah 24:5

And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.

Isaiah 48:1

Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of Israel, And from the waters of Judah came out, Who are swearing by the name of Jehovah, And of the God of Israel make mention, Not in truth nor in righteousness.

Isaiah 59:2-8

But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.

Isaiah 59:12-15

For our transgressions have been multiplied before Thee, And our sins have testified against us, For our transgressions are with us, And our iniquities -- we have known them.

Jeremiah 5:1-2

Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness -- Then am I propitious to her.

Jeremiah 5:7-9

For this I am not propitious to thee, Thy sons have forsaken Me, And are satisfied by that which is not god, I satisfy them, and they commit adultery, And at the house of a harlot They gather themselves together.

Jeremiah 7:6-10

Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,

Jeremiah 9:2-8

Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.

Jeremiah 23:10-14

For of adulterers hath the land been full, For because of these hath the land mourned, Dried up hath been the pleasant places of the wilderness, And their course is evil, and their might -- not right.

Lamentations 4:13

Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,

Ezekiel 22:2-13

'And thou, son of man, dost thou judge? dost thou judge the city of blood? then thou hast caused it to know all its abominations,

Ezekiel 22:25-30

A conspiracy of its prophets is in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst.

Hosea 5:2

And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I am a fetter to them all.

Hosea 7:3

With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.

Hosea 10:4

They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.

Hosea 12:14

Ephraim hath provoked most bitterly, And his blood on himself he leaveth, And his reproach turn back to him doth his Lord!

Micah 2:1-3

Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

Micah 3:2

Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,

Micah 3:9

Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.

Micah 6:10

Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

Zephaniah 3:1

Woe to the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!

Zechariah 5:3

And he saith unto me, 'This is the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent.

Zechariah 7:9

'Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

Matthew 23:35

that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar:

Acts 7:52

which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary,

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder -- having seen her -- with great wonder;

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