Ezekiel 16:30
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30 How sick is your heart,[a] says the Lord God, that you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,
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- 16.30 Or How furious I am with you
Jeremiah 3:3
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3 Therefore the showers have been withheld,
and the spring rain has not come,
yet you have the forehead of a prostitute;
you refuse to be ashamed.(A)
Jeremiah 4:22
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22 “For my people are foolish;
they do not know me;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil
but do not know how to do good.”(A)
Isaiah 3:9
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9 The look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them,
for they have brought evil on themselves.(A)
Isaiah 1:3
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3 The ox knows its owner
and the donkey its master’s crib,
but Israel does not know;
my people do not understand.(A)
Proverbs 9:13
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Folly’s Invitation and Promise
13 The foolish woman is loud;
she is ignorant and knows nothing.(A)
Revelation 17:1-6
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The Great Whore and the Beast
17 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great whore[a] who is seated on many waters,(A) 2 with whom the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality[b] and with the wine of whose prostitution the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk.”(B) 3 So he carried me away in the spirit[c] into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.(C) 4 The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her prostitution,(D) 5 and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother[d] of whores[e] and of earth’s abominations.”(E) 6 And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.
When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.(F)
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Jeremiah 2:12-13
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12 Be appalled, O heavens, at this;
be shocked; be utterly desolate,
says the Lord,
13 for my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug out cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns
that can hold no water.(A)
Proverbs 7:21
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21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with her smooth talk she compels him.(A)
Proverbs 7:11-13
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11 She is loud and wayward;
her feet do not stay at home;(A)
12 now in the street, now in the squares,
and at every corner she lies in wait.(B)
13 She seizes him and kisses him,
and with impudent face she says to him:
Judges 16:15-16
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15 Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me three times now and have not told me what makes your strength so great.”(A) 16 Finally, after she had nagged him with her words day after day and pestered him, he was tired to death.
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