Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, o
both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains an
Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness.
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate k
I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned ea
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs,
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to
“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and u
This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will mult
Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit,
When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery,
Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who pas
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come
And as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the e
“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
“Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre
which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.
They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered
So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?
Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on e