...: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. Hos. 4: 1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel:...truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood...

...Judah : I, even I, will tear and go away ; I will take away, and none shall rescue him." (Hos.v. 14.) " Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel :...hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land." Wherefore ? " Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land." (Hos. iv. 1.)...

...oppression. Lest vengeance should be" too slow, and forget itself, these be the messengers to bring it. " By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing,...toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every inhabitant languish," Hos. iv. 2. Now when the plague comes, and says, Here I am ; they cry as the...

...pictures drawn of human nature in the Holy Scriptures, for every feature of it is realized here. " There is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God...committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood."1 Masters in general strike their servants unmercifully, and men-servants are often lashed with...

...blaspheme. 5. It is a sin that brings down wrath in a special manner, (1.) On a land, Hos. iv. 1, 2, " The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of...is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the laud. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and...

...pleasant places of the wilderness areidried up, and their course is evil, and their force notiright. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing,...blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn. Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth : for every...

...will, sooner or later, be very terribly revenged. The word of God cries aloud against it, Hos. iv. 1, " For the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants...truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land." Isa. v. 8, " Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field till there be no place,...

...The Lord is contending, (3.) Because of the horrid profanity of the generation : Hos. iv. i. —3, " Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel ;...and stealing, and committing adultery, they break ont, and blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein...

...with her ear-rings and her jewels, and she went after lier lovers, oitb forcjiit me, saith the Lord. Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel :...the land, because there is no truth nor mercy, nor knorolcbge of (Sob in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery,...

...knowledge : and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Hos. 4: 1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children 'of Israel...controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because tliere is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 6 My people are destroyed for lack...