Hosea 6:7
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Hosea 6:7 in other translations
| BSB | But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me. |
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| WEB | But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me there. |
| ASV | But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. |
| YLT | And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me. |
| DARBY | But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. |
| BBE | But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me. |
| Webster | But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. |
What does Hosea 6:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 6:4-11
Sometimes Israel and Judah seemed disposed to repent under their sufferings, but their goodness vanished like the empty morning cloud, and the early dew, and they were as vile as ever. Therefore the Lord sent awful messages by the prophets. The word of God will be the death either of the sin or of the sinner. God desired mercy rather than sacrifice, and that knowledge of him which produces holy fear and love. This…
Hosea 6:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Hosea 6:7
- Genesis 3:11
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
- Jeremiah 9:6
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.
- Hosea 8:1
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
- Hosea 5:7
They have dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
- Job 31:33
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
- Ezekiel 16:59-61
For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
- 2 Kings 17:15
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.
- Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
- Isaiah 24:5
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
- Jeremiah 5:11
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 3:7
And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
- Isaiah 24:16
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
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Context
- Hosea 6:6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- Hosea 6:7
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
- Hosea 6:8
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
Hosea 6:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas ellos, cual Adam, traspasaron el pacto: allí prevaricaron contra mí. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | mais eux, comme Adam, ont transgressé l’alliance; là ils ont agi perfidement envers moi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sie aber haben den Bund übertreten wie Adam, haben dort treulos gegen mich gehandelt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ipsi autem sicut Adam transgressi sunt pactum: ibi prævaricati sunt in me. |