Hosea 2:4

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And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

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  • Jer 13:14 : 14 I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.
  • Hos 1:2 : 2 The start of the word of the Lord by Hosea: And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of loose ways, and children of the same, for the land has been untrue to the Lord.
  • Hos 1:6 : 6 And after that she gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said, Give her the name Lo-ruhamah; for I will not again have mercy on Israel, to give them forgiveness.
  • Ezek 8:18 : 18 For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.
  • Ezek 9:10 : 10 And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.
  • Zech 1:12 : 12 Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?
  • John 8:41 : 41 You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.
  • Rom 11:22 : 22 See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
  • Jer 16:5 : 5 For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.
  • 2 Kgs 9:22 : 22 Now when Joram saw Jehu he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he said in answer, What peace is possible while all the land is full of the disgusting sins of your mother Jezebel, and her secret arts?
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
  • Isa 57:3 : 3 But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 2:5-6
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    85%

    5For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

    6For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

  • Hos 2:2-3
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    84%

    2Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

    3For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

  • Jer 5:7
    78%

    7How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

  • Jer 13:14
    76%

    14I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

  • Hos 2:10
    75%

    10And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.

  • Hos 5:3-4
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    75%

    3I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.

    4Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

  • Ezek 16:35-36
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    75%

    35For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord:

    36This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;

  • Ezek 23:8-10
    3 verses
    74%

    8And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.

    9For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.

    10By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.

  • Hos 1:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6And after that she gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said, Give her the name Lo-ruhamah; for I will not again have mercy on Israel, to give them forgiveness.

    7But I will have mercy on Judah and will give them salvation by the Lord their God, but not by the bow or the sword or by fighting or by horses or horsemen.

    8Now when Lo-ruhamah had been taken from the breast, the woman gave birth to a son.

  • Hos 9:12
    74%

    12Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.

  • Ezek 23:30
    74%

    30They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.

  • Hos 4:14
    74%

    14I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.

  • Ezek 16:38
    73%

    38And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.

  • Hos 4:10
    73%

    10They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

  • Rev 2:21-22
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    73%

    21And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways.

    22See, I will put her into a bed, and those who make themselves unclean with her, into great trouble, if they go on with her works.

  • Nah 3:4
    73%

    4Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.

  • Ps 109:12
    72%

    12Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.

  • Exod 22:24
    72%

    24And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

  • Jer 16:3
    72%

    3For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

  • Isa 9:17
    72%

    17For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Jer 15:7
    72%

    7And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.

  • Isa 13:18
    72%

    18In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.

  • Jer 3:8-9
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    72%

    8And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.

    9So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

  • Ezek 23:37
    72%

    37For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.

  • Nah 3:10
    72%

    10But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.

  • Jer 2:30
    72%

    30I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

  • Isa 57:3
    71%

    3But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

  • Ezek 5:9
    71%

    9And I will do in you what I have not done and will not do again, because of all your disgusting ways.

  • Ezek 16:20-22
    3 verses
    71%

    20And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,

    21That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?

    22And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.

  • Hos 4:18
    71%

    18Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

  • Hos 9:14
    71%

    14O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.

  • Ezek 16:41
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    41And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.

  • Jer 3:20
    71%

    20Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 23:43
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    43Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.

  • Ezek 16:45
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    45You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

  • Lam 1:5
    71%

    5Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.

  • Num 14:33
    71%

    33And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

  • Hos 4:6
    71%

    6Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.