When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.
Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love he
And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselv
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice
Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed ch
Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by
Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the grea
And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel
This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their ow
the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandal
but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute t
“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be com
Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
This is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.