Israel's Unfaithfulness Punished
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Say to your brothers, x "You are my people," and to your sisters, y "You have received mercy."
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"Plead with your mother, plead -
for z she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband -
that she put away a her whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;
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lest b I strip her naked
and make her as c in the day she was born,
and d make her like a wilderness,
and make her like a parched land,
and kill her with thirst.
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e Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
f because they are children of whoredom.
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For g their mother has played the whore;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For h she said, 'I will go after my lovers,
who i give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
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Therefore j I will hedge up her way with thorns,
and k I will build a wall against her,
so that she cannot find her paths.
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She shall pursue her lovers
but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
but shall not find them.
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'I will go and return to m my first husband,
l for it was better for me then than now.'
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And n she did not know
that it was o I who gave her
p the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on q her silver and gold,
r which they used for Baal.
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Therefore s I will take back
my grain in its time,
and my wine in its season,
and s I will take away my wool and my flax,
which were to cover her nakedness.
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Now t I will uncover her lewdness
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
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u And I will put an end to all her mirth,
her feasts, her v new moons, her v Sabbaths,
and all her w appointed feasts.
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And x I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
y of which she said,
'These are z my wages,
which my lovers have given me.'
I will make them a forest,
a and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
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And b I will punish her for c the feast days of the Baals
when she burned offerings to them
and d adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
and went after her lovers
and forgot me, declares the Lord.
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Hosea 1:9
And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
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Hosea 1:6
She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, "Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
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Isaiah 50:1
Thus says the Lord : "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
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Hosea 4:12
My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.
Ezekiel 16:25
At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
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Ezekiel 16:39
And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.
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Ezekiel 16:4
And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
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Hosea 2:9
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
Ezekiel 19:13
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
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Hosea 1:6
She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, "Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
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Hosea 1:2
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.
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Hosea 1:2
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.
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Hosea 2:12 - 13
And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, 'These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.' I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
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Hosea 2:8 - 9
And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.
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Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
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Job 19:8
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
Lamentations 3:7
He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy.
Lamentations 3:9
He has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
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Luke 15:17 - 18
But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!
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Luke 15:17 - 18
But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!
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Isaiah 54:5 - 6
For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
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Hosea 2:20
I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.
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Ezekiel 16:19
Also my bread that I gave you - I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey - you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God.
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Deuteronomy 7:13
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
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Hosea 13:2
And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, "Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!
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Ezekiel 16:17 - 18
You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.
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Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.
Joel 1:10
The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes.
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Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.
Joel 1:10
The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes.
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Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.
Ezekiel 16:37
Therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
Ezekiel 23:29
And they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring
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Jeremiah 7:34
And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.
Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
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Amos 8:5
Saying, "When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances.
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Amos 8:5
Saying, "When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances.
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Hosea 9:5
What will you do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the Lord ?
Isaiah 1:13 - 14
Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations - I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.
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Isaiah 5:5
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
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Hosea 2:5
For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
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Micah 1:7
All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste, for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.
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Hosea 13:8
I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.
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Hosea 4:9
And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
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Hosea 11:2
The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.
Hosea 13:1 - 2
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
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Ezekiel 23:40
They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.
Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord ; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
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