OLD TESTAMENT

Hosea 10:4

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They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

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Verse 4. Covenant with Phul, who seeks only your destruction. 4 Kennicott. 15:19. Calmet.—Bitterness. Hebrew “poison,” ( Bible.) or a bitter herb. Calmet.

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