Hosea 2:2
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God’s Unfaithful People
2 “Bring[a] charges against your mother, [b]bring charges;
For (A)she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband!
Let her put away her (B)harlotries from her sight,
And her adulteries from between her breasts;
Isaiah 50:1
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The Servant, Israel’s Hope
50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is (A)the certificate of your mother’s divorce,
Whom I have put away?
Or which of My (B)creditors is it to whom I have sold you?
For your iniquities (C)you have sold yourselves,
And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.
Ezekiel 23:45
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45 But righteous men will (A)judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and (B)blood is on their hands.
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Jeremiah 3:13
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13 (A)Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God,
And have (B)scattered your [a]charms
To (C)alien deities (D)under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 3:13 Lit. ways
Ezekiel 16:25
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25 You built your high places (A)at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.
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Jeremiah 3:1
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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.
Hosea 1:2
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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.”
Footnotes
- Hosea 1:2 Spiritual adultery
Jeremiah 19:3
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3 (A)and 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: “Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this place, that whoever hears of it, his ears will (B)tingle.
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Jeremiah 3:6-9
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A Call to Repentance
6 The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what (A)backsliding Israel has done? She has (B)gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot. 7 (C)And I said, after she had done all these things, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous (D)sister Judah saw it. 8 Then I saw that (E)for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had (F)put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; (G)yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. 9 So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she (H)defiled the land and committed adultery with (I)stones and trees.
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2 Corinthians 5:16
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16 (A)Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, (B)yet now we know Him thus no longer.
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Matthew 23:37-39
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Jesus Laments over Jerusalem(A)
37 (B)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets (C)and stones those who are sent to her! How often (D)I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks (E)under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 See! Your house is left to you desolate; 39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, (F)‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
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Hosea 2:5
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5 For their mother has played the harlot;
She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
(A)Who give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my linen,
My oil and my drink.’
Ezekiel 23:43
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43 Then I said concerning her who had grown old in adulteries, ‘Will they commit harlotry with her now, and she with them?’
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Ezekiel 20:4
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4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Then (A)make known to them the abominations of their fathers.
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Ezekiel 16:20
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20 (A)“Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,
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Jeremiah 2:2
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2 “Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“I remember you,
The kindness of your (A)youth,
The love of your betrothal,
(B)When you [a]went after Me in the wilderness,
In a land not sown.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:2 followed
Isaiah 58:1
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Fasting that Pleases God
58 “Cry aloud, [a]spare not;
Lift up your voice like a trumpet;
(A)Tell My people their transgression,
And the house of Jacob their sins.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 58:1 do not hold back
Acts 7:51-53
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Israel Resists the Holy Spirit
51 “You (A)stiff-necked[a] and (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 (C)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of (D)the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, 53 (E)who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.”
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- Acts 7:51 stubborn
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