I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense
I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. F
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she
Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no earl
But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they
“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, yo
They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal
So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may
He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as
The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before
When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do i
‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fea
So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s
And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter
This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find re
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.