Hosea 1 - 3
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The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, a in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of b Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
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When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, c "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have d children of whoredom, for e the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord."
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So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
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And the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while f I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and g I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
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And on that day h I will break the bow of Israel i in the Valley of Jezreel."
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She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, j "Call her name No Mercy, for k I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
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But l I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I m will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen."
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When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son.
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And the Lord said, n "Call his name Not My People, for o you are not my people, and I am not your God."
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Yet p the number of the children of Israel shall be q like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. r And s in the place where it was said to them, o "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, t "Children of u the living God."
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And v the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and w they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
Hosea 2
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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.
l Then she shall say,
'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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"Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
and e bring her into the wilderness,
and f speak tenderly to her.
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And there I will give her her vineyards
and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
And there she shall answer g as in the days of her youth,
as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.
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"And h in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me 'My Husband,' and no longer will you call me 'My Baal.'
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For i I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.
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And j I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And k I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in l safety.
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And I will betroth you to me m forever. n I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
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n I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And o you shall know the Lord.
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"And p in that day q I will answer, declares the Lord,
I will answer the heavens,
and they shall answer the earth,
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and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and they shall answer r Jezreel,
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and s I will sow her for myself in the land.
And t I u will have mercy on No Mercy,
and v I will say to Not My People, w 'You are my people';
and he shall say, 'You are my God.'"
Hosea 3
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And the Lord said to me, x "Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."
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So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a y homer and a lethech of barley.
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And I said to her, "You must z dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you."
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For the children of Israel z shall dwell many days a without king or prince, b without sacrifice or c pillar, without d ephod or e household gods.
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Afterward f the children of Israel shall return and g seek the Lord their God, and h David their king, i and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the j latter days.
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Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Micah 1:1
The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 14:23
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.
2 Kings 15:1
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
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Hosea 3:1
And the Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.
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Hosea 2:4
Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.
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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.
Ezekiel 16:15
But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.
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2 Kings 10:11
So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
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Amos 7:9
The high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
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2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
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Joshua 17:16
The people of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.
Judges 6:33
Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.
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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.
Hosea 2:1
Say to your brothers, "You are my people," and to your sisters, "You have received mercy.
Hosea 2:23
And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.'
Romans 9:25
As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Hosea 2:4
Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 17:23
Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.
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Hosea 11:12
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
2 Kings 19:35
And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
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Hosea 2:18
And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.
Zechariah 4:6
Then he said to me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
Zechariah 9:10
I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
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Hosea 1:4
And the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
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 2:23
And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.
Leviticus 26:12
And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
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Ezekiel 36:10
And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.
Ezekiel 36:37
Thus says the Lord God : This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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Romans 9:26
"And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"
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Isaiah 62:4
You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.
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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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Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
2 Corinthians 6:18
And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.
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Psalms 42:2
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Joshua 3:10
And Joshua said, "Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
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Isaiah 11:12 - 13
He will raise a signal for the nations and will...
Jeremiah 3:18
In those days the house of Judah shall join the...
Jeremiah 50:4
In those days and in that time, declares the Lo...
Ezekiel 34:23
And I will set up over them one shepherd, my se...
Zechariah 10:6
I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I wil...
Ezekiel 37:16 - 24
"Son of man, take a stick and write on it, 'For...
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Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.
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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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Ezekiel 20:35
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
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Isaiah 40:2
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord 's hand double for all her sins.
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Hosea 9:10
Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.
Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, "I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Ezekiel 16:22
And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
Ezekiel 16:60
Yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
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Hosea 2:18
And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.
Hosea 2:21
And in that day I will answer, declares the Lord, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth.
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Zephaniah 1:4
I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests.
Zechariah 13:2
And on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.
Exodus 23:13
Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.
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Ezekiel 34:25
I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
Job 5:23
For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
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Psalms 46:9
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire.
Isaiah 2:4
He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isaiah 9:5
For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
Ezekiel 39:9 - 10
Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years.
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Leviticus 26:5
Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.
Jeremiah 23:6
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: 'The Lord is our righteousness.
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Ezekiel 43:7
And he said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places.
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Hosea 2:7
She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.
Hosea 2:16
"And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me 'My Husband,' and no longer will you call me 'My Baal.'
Jeremiah 3:14 - 15
Return, O faithless children, declares the Lord ; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
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Hosea 2:19
And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
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Jeremiah 31:34
And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
John 17:3
And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
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Hosea 2:16
"And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me 'My Husband,' and no longer will you call me 'My Baal.'
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Zechariah 8:12
For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
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Hosea 1:4
And the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Hosea 1:11
And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
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Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God.
Ezekiel 36:9 - 11
For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
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Romans 9:25 - 26
As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.
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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 1:9
And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Hosea 2:1
Say to your brothers, "You are my people," and to your sisters, "You have received mercy.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The Lord is my God.'
Leviticus 26:12
And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord : I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Hosea 1:2 - 3
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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Leviticus 27:16
If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Ezekiel 45:11
The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.
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Deuteronomy 21:13
And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
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Hosea 3:3
And I said to her, "You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.
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Hosea 10:3
For now they will say: "We have no king, for we do not fear the Lord ; and a king - what could he do for us?
Hosea 10:7
Samaria's king shall perish like a twig on the face of the waters.
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Hosea 9:4
They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord, and their sacrifices shall not please him. It shall be like mourners' bread to them; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the Lord.
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Hosea 10:1 - 2
Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars.
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Judges 8:27
And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.
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Genesis 31:19
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
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Hosea 14:1
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
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Jeremiah 29:13
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 50:4
In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come, and they shall seek the Lord their God.
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Ezekiel 34:23
And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
Hosea 1:11
And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
Jeremiah 23:5
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
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Micah 7:17
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.
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Isaiah 2:2
It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it.
Micah 4:1 - 3
It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it.
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