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Hosea 2:2
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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;
Hosea 2:2
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Hosea 2:2
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Israel Punished and Restored
Isaiah 50:1
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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.
Isaiah 50:1
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Isaiah 50:1
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Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience
50 This is what the Lord says:
Ezekiel 23:45
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Ezekiel 23:45
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45 But righteous men (A)shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”
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Ezekiel 23:45
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Ezekiel 23:45
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45 But righteous judges will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood,(A) because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.(B)
Jeremiah 3:13
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Jeremiah 3:13
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13 (A)Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under (B)every green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:13
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Jeremiah 3:13
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Ezekiel 16:25
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Ezekiel 16:25
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25 At the head of every street (A)you built your lofty place and made (B)your beauty an abomination, (C)offering yourself[a] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
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- Ezekiel 16:25 Hebrew spreading your legs
Ezekiel 16:25
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Ezekiel 16:25
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25 At every street corner(A) you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.(B)
Jeremiah 3:1
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Jeremiah 3:1
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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.
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- Jeremiah 3:1 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If
Jeremiah 3:1
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Jeremiah 3:1
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Hosea 1:2
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Hosea 1:2
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Hosea's Wife and Children
2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, (A)“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have (B)children of whoredom, for (C)the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”
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Hosea 1:2
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Hosea 1:2
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Hosea’s Wife and Children
2 When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous(A) woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness(B) to the Lord.”
Jeremiah 19:3
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Jeremiah 19:3
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3 You shall say, (A)‘Hear the word of the Lord, (B)O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that (C)the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.
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Jeremiah 19:3
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Jeremiah 19:3
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3 and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings(A) of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster(B) on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.(C)
Jeremiah 3:6-9
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Jeremiah 3:6-9
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Faithless Israel Called to Repentance
6 The Lord said to me in the days of (A)King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, (B)how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there (C)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 (D)sister Judah saw it. 8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, (E)I had sent her away with (F)a decree of divorce. (G)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went (H)and played the whore. 9 Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with (I)stone and tree.
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Jeremiah 3:6-9
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Jeremiah 3:6-9
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Unfaithful Israel
6 During the reign of King Josiah,(A) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(B) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(C) and has committed adultery(D) there. 7 I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister(E) Judah saw it.(F) 8 I gave faithless Israel(G) her certificate of divorce(H) and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear;(I) she also went out and committed adultery. 9 Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land(J) and committed adultery(K) with stone(L) and wood.(M)
2 Corinthians 5:16
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2 Corinthians 5:16
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16 From now on, therefore, (A)we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.
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2 Corinthians 5:16
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2 Corinthians 5:16
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16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly(A) point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
Matthew 23:37-39
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Matthew 23:37-39
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Lament over Jerusalem
37 (A)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that (B)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have (C)gathered (D)your children together (E)as a hen gathers her brood (F)under her wings, and (G)you were not willing! 38 See, (H)your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, (I)‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
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Matthew 23:37-39
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Matthew 23:37-39
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37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you,(A) how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,(B) and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.(C) 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’[a]”(D)
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- Matthew 23:39 Psalm 118:26
Hosea 2:5
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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 2:5
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Hosea 2:5
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Ezekiel 23:43
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Ezekiel 23:43
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43 “Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!’[a]
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- Ezekiel 23:43 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
Ezekiel 23:43
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Ezekiel 23:43
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43 Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute,(A) for that is all she is.’
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