Hos 4:2-3 | JFB | STEP | 2. they break out —bursting through every restraint. blood toucheth blood —literally, "bloods." One act of bloodshed follows another without any interval between (see ).

Hosea 4:2-3

2. they break out—bursting through every restraint.

blood toucheth blood—literally, "bloods." One act of bloodshed follows another without any interval between (see 2Ki 15:8-16, 25; Mic 7:2).

3. land . . . languish— (Isa 19:8; 24:4; Joe 1:10, 12).

sea—including all bodies of water, as pools and even rivers (see on Isa 19:5). A general drought, the greatest calamity in the East, is threatened.