Quotes about Deception
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
— Hosea 4:12
The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
— Hosea 4:19
They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.
— Hosea 7:3
Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.
— Hosea 7:15
They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
— Hosea 10:4
Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
— Hosea 12:1
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
— Hosea 12:7
Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
— Hosea 13:2
Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
— Amos 5:5
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
— Amos 8:5
The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
— Obadiah 1:3
But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
— Obadiah 1:6