“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 completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a
You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to ang
“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight
Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still no
But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all yo
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers,
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
The older was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As
“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and u
Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that
When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery,
He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will retur
Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return
But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been the
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge w
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have
Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within yo
Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!
she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she h
Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on y
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land and made My inheritance
“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD o
The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the ev