Words — Vain words. Swearing falsely — By perjury deceiving those they treated with. A covenant — With the Assyrian king. Judgment — Divine vengeance. As hemlock — A proverbial speech, expressing the greatness of this evil.
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Hosea 10:4
4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.