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Hosea 2:2
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Hosea 2:2
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Israel’s Infidelity, Punishment, and Redemption
2 Plead with your mother, plead—
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away her prostitution from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts,(A)
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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50 Thus says the Lord:
Where is your mother’s bill of divorce
with which I dismissed her?
Or which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
No, because of your sins you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.(A)
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 judges shall declare them guilty of adultery and of bloodshed, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.(A)
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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 Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you have rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree
and have not obeyed my voice,
says the Lord.(A)
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 you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, offering yourself[a] to every passer-by and multiplying your prostitution.(A)
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- 16.25 Heb 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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Unfaithful Israel
3 If[a] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
Would not such a land be greatly polluted?
You have prostituted yourself with many lovers,
and would you return to me?
says the Lord.(A)
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- 3.1 Gk Syr: Heb 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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The Family of Hosea
2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of prostitution, for the land commits great prostitution by forsaking the Lord.”(A)
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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: Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am going to bring such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.(A)
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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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A Call to Repentance
6 The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree and prostituted herself there?(A) 7 And I thought, “After she has done all this she will return to me,” but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.(B) 8 She[a] saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce, yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and prostituted herself.(C) 9 Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.(D)
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- 3.8 Gk mss Syr: Heb I
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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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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The Lament over Jerusalem
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you, desolate.[a] 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ”(A)
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- 23.38 Other ancient authorities lack desolate
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 their mother has prostituted herself;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will go after my lovers;
they give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”(A)
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, “Ah, she is worn out with adulteries, but they carry on their sexual acts with her.”
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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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