Hosea 2:5
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5 For (A)their mother has played the whore;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For (B)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who (C)give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
Hosea 3:1
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Hosea Redeems His Wife
3 And the Lord said to me, (A)“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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Jeremiah 44:17-18
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17 (A)But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to (B)the queen of heaven (C)and pour out drink offerings to her, (D)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. 18 But since we left off making offerings to (E)the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything (F)and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”
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Isaiah 1:21
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The Unfaithful City
21 How the faithful city
(A)has become a whore,[a]
(B)she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:21 Or become unchaste
Hosea 2:12-13
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12 And (A)I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
(B)of which she said,
‘These are (C)my wages,
which my lovers have given me.’
I will make them a forest,
(D)and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
13 And (E)I will punish her for (F)the feast days of the Baals
when she burned offerings to them
and (G)adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
and went after her lovers
and forgot me, declares the Lord.
Revelation 17:1-5
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The Great Prostitute and the Beast
17 Then (A)one of the seven angels who had (B)the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of (C)the great prostitute (D)who is seated on many waters, 2 (E)with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and (F)with the wine of whose sexual immorality (G)the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” 3 And (H)he carried me away in the Spirit (I)into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on (J)a scarlet beast that was full of (K)blasphemous names, and (L)it had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman (M)was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned (N)with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand (O)a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of (P)mystery: (Q)“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.”
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Revelation 2:20-23
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20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman (A)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants (B)to practice sexual immorality and (C)to eat food sacrificed to idols. 21 I gave her time to repent, but (D)she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. 22 Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, 23 and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he (E)who searches mind and heart, and (F)I will give to each of you according to your works.
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Hosea 9:10
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10 Like grapes in the wilderness,
(A)I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
in its first season,
I saw your fathers.
But (B)they came to Baal-peor
and (C)consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
and (D)became detestable like the thing they loved.
Hosea 8:9
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Hosea 4:12-15
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12 My people (A)inquire of a piece of wood,
and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For (B)a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
and they have left their God to play the whore.
13 (C)They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
and burn offerings on the hills,
(D)under oak, poplar, and terebinth,
because their shade is good.
Therefore your daughters play the whore,
and your brides commit adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore,
nor your brides when they commit adultery;
for (E)the men themselves go aside with prostitutes
and sacrifice with (F)cult prostitutes,
and a people (G)without understanding shall come to ruin.
15 Though you play the whore, O (H)Israel,
let not (I)Judah become guilty.
(J)Enter not into (K)Gilgal,
nor go up to (L)Beth-aven,
and swear not, “As the Lord lives.”
Hosea 4:5
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5 You shall stumble by day;
the prophet also shall stumble with you by night;
and I will destroy (A)your mother.
Hosea 2:2
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2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
for (A)she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away (B)her whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;
Daniel 9:5-8
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5 (A)we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly (B)and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. 6 (C)We have not listened to (D)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to (E)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 To you, (F)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, (G)those who are near and (H)those who are far away, in (I)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of (J)the treachery that they have committed against you. 8 To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because (K)we have sinned against you.
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Ezekiel 23:40-44
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40 They even sent for men to come from afar, (A)to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, (B)painted your eyes, (C)and adorned yourself with ornaments. 41 You sat on (D)a stately couch, with a table spread before it (E)on which you had placed my incense and (F)my oil. 42 The (G)sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards[a] were brought from the wilderness; and they put (H)bracelets on the hands of the women, and (I)beautiful crowns on their heads.
43 “Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!’[b] 44 For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women!
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- Ezekiel 23:42 Or Sabeans
- Ezekiel 23:43 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
Ezekiel 23:16-17
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16 When she saw them, she lusted after them and (A)sent messengers to them (B)in Chaldea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her (C)into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, (D)she turned from them in disgust.
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Ezekiel 23:5-11
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5 “Oholah played the whore (A)while she was mine, and (B)she lusted after her lovers (C)the Assyrians, warriors 6 clothed in purple, (D)governors and commanders, (E)all of them desirable young men, (F)horsemen riding on horses. 7 She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted. 8 She did not give up her whoring (G)that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her. 9 Therefore (H)I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. 10 (I)These uncovered her nakedness; (J)they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became (K)a byword among women, (L)when judgment had been executed on her.
11 (M)“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became (N)more corrupt than her sister[a] in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.
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- Ezekiel 23:11 Hebrew than she
Ezekiel 16:28-34
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28 (A)You played the whore also (B)with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. 29 You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land (C)of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.
30 “How sick is your heart,[a] declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, 31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, (D)because you scorned payment. 32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, (E)but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 34 So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and (F)you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.
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- Ezekiel 16:30 Revocalization yields How I am filled with anger against you
Ezekiel 16:15-16
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15 (A)“But you trusted in your beauty (B)and played the whore[a] because of your renown (C)and lavished your whorings[b] on any passerby; your beauty[c] became his. 16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.[d]
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- Ezekiel 16:15 Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
- Ezekiel 16:15 Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
- Ezekiel 16:15 Hebrew it
- Ezekiel 16:16 The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain
Jeremiah 11:13
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13 (A)For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, (B)altars to make offerings to Baal.
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Jeremiah 3:1-9
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3 (A)“If[a] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
will he return to her?
(B)Would not that land be greatly polluted?
(C)You have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
2 Lift up your eyes to (D)the bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
(E)By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
(F)You have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.
3 (G)Therefore the showers have been withheld,
and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have (H)the forehead of a whore;
you refuse to be ashamed.
4 Have you not just now (I)called to me,
‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—
5 (J)will he be angry forever,
will he be indignant to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken,
but you have done all the evil that you could.”
Faithless Israel Called to Repentance
6 The Lord said to me in the days of (K)King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, (L)how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there (M)played the whore? 7 And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous (N)sister Judah saw it. 8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, (O)I had sent her away with (P)a decree of divorce. (Q)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went (R)and played the whore. 9 Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with (S)stone and tree.
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- Jeremiah 3:1 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If
Jeremiah 2:25-27
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25 Keep (A)your feet from going unshod
and (B)your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘It is hopeless,
(C)for I have loved foreigners,
and after them I will go.’
26 “As a thief is shamed when caught,
so the house of Israel shall be shamed:
(D)they, their kings, their officials,
their priests, and their prophets,
27 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to me,
and not their face.
But (E)in the time of their trouble they say,
‘Arise and save us!’
Jeremiah 2:20
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20 “For long ago I (A)broke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
but you said, (B)‘I will not serve.’
Yes, (C)on every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down (D)like a whore.
Isaiah 57:7-8
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7 (A)On a high and lofty mountain
you have set your bed,
and there you went up to offer sacrifice.
8 Behind the door and the doorpost
you have set up your memorial;
for, deserting me, (B)you have uncovered your bed,
you have gone up to it,
(C)you have made it wide;
and you have made a covenant for yourself with them,
you have loved their bed,
you have looked on nakedness.[a]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 57:8 Or on a monument (see 56:5); Hebrew on a hand
Isaiah 50:1
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Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience
50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is (A)your mother's certificate of divorce,
with which (B)I sent her away?
Or (C)which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
(D)Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
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