Hosea 3:1
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Israel Will Return to God
3 Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by a (A)lover[a] and is committing adultery, just like the love of the Lord for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans.”
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- Hosea 3:1 Lit. friend or husband
Jeremiah 3:12-14
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12 Go and proclaim these words toward (A)the north, and say:
‘Return, backsliding Israel,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not cause My anger to fall on you.
For I am (B)merciful,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not remain angry forever.
13 (C)Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God,
And have (D)scattered your [a]charms
To (E)alien deities (F)under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.
14 “Return, O backsliding children,” says the Lord; (G)“for I am married to you. I will take you, (H)one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to (I)Zion.
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- Jeremiah 3:13 Lit. ways
Micah 7:18-20
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18 (A)Who is a God like You,
(B)Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression of (C)the remnant of His heritage?
(D)He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in (E)mercy.[a]
19 He will again have compassion on us,
And will subdue our iniquities.
You will cast all [b]our sins
Into the depths of the sea.
20 (F)You will give truth to Jacob
And [c]mercy to Abraham,
(G)Which You have sworn to our fathers
From days of old.
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- Micah 7:18 Or lovingkindness
- Micah 7:19 Lit. their
- Micah 7:20 Or lovingkindness
Hosea 1:2-3
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The Family of Hosea
2 When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea:
(A)“Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry
And children of harlotry,
For (B)the land has committed great [a]harlotry
By departing from the Lord.”
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
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- Hosea 1:2 Spiritual adultery
Jeremiah 31:20
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20 Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a pleasant child?
For though I spoke against him,
I earnestly remember him still;
(A)Therefore My [a]heart yearns for him;
(B)I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 31:20 Lit. inward parts
Isaiah 45:22
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22 “Look to Me, and be saved,
(A)All you ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.
Micah 7:7
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7 Therefore I will look to the Lord;
I will (A)wait for the God of my salvation;
My God will hear me.
Hosea 11:8
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8 “How(A) can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I make you like (B)Admah?
How can I set you like Zeboiim?
My heart [a]churns within Me;
My sympathy is stirred.
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- Hosea 11:8 Lit. turns over
Psalm 106:43-46
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43 (A)Many times He delivered them;
But they rebelled in their counsel,
And were brought low for their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,
When (B)He heard their cry;
45 (C)And for their sake He remembered His covenant,
And (D)relented (E)according to the multitude of His mercies.
46 (F)He also made them to be pitied
By all those who carried them away captive.
Deuteronomy 7:6-7
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6 “For you are a [a]holy people to the Lord your God; (A)the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. 7 The Lord did not set His (B)love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were (C)the least of all peoples;
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- Deuteronomy 7:6 set-apart
1 Peter 4:3
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3 For we have spent enough of our past [a]lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.
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- 1 Peter 4:3 NU time
Zechariah 1:16
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16 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord:
(A)“I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy;
My (B)house (C)shall be built in it,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And (D)a surveyor’s line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’
Jeremiah 3:20
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20 Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her [a]husband,
So (A)have you dealt treacherously with Me,
O house of Israel,” says the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 3:20 Lit. companion
Jeremiah 3:1-4
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Israel Is Shameless
3 “They say, ‘If a man divorces his wife,
And she goes from him
And becomes another man’s,
(A)May he return to her again?’
Would not that (B)land be greatly polluted?
But you have (C)played the harlot with many lovers;
(D)Yet return to Me,” says the Lord.
2 “Lift up your eyes to (E)the desolate heights and see:
Where have you not [a]lain with men?
(F)By the road you have sat for them
Like an Arabian in the wilderness;
(G)And you have polluted the land
With your harlotries and your wickedness.
3 Therefore the (H)showers have been withheld,
And there has been no latter rain.
You have had a (I)harlot’s forehead;
You refuse to be ashamed.
4 Will you not from this time cry to Me,
‘My Father, You are (J)the guide of (K)my youth?
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- Jeremiah 3:2 Kt. been violated
Psalm 123:2
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2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters,
As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
(A)So our eyes look to the Lord our God,
Until He has mercy on us.
1 Corinthians 10:21
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21 (A)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and (B)the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the (C)Lord’s table and of the table of demons.
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Amos 6:6
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6 Who (A)drink wine from bowls,
And anoint yourselves with the best ointments,
(B)But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Amos 2:8
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8 They lie down (A)by every altar on clothes (B)taken in pledge,
And drink the wine of [a]the condemned in the house of their god.
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- Amos 2:8 Or those punished by fines
Nehemiah 9:31
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31 Nevertheless in Your great mercy
(A)You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them;
For You are God, gracious and merciful.
Nehemiah 9:18-19
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18 “Even (A)when they made a molded calf for themselves,
And said, ‘This is your god
That brought you up out of Egypt,’
And worked great provocations,
19 Yet in Your (B)manifold mercies
You did not forsake them in the wilderness.
The (C)pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day,
To lead them on the road;
Nor the pillar of fire by night,
To show them light,
And the way they should go.
2 Kings 13:23
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23 But the Lord was (A)gracious to them, had compassion on them, and (B)regarded them, (C)because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not yet destroy them or cast them from His presence.
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2 Samuel 6:19
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19 (A)Then he distributed among all the people, among the whole multitude of Israel, both the women and the men, to everyone a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed, everyone to his house.
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Judges 10:16
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16 (A)So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord. And (B)His soul could no longer endure the misery of Israel.
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Judges 9:27
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27 So they went out into the fields, and gathered grapes from their vineyards and trod them, and [a]made merry. And they went into (A)the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.
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- Judges 9:27 rejoiced
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