Hosea 2:4

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Plead with your mother, plead! For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her adulteries from before her face and her unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

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  • Jer 13:14 : 14 And I will shatter them, one against another, fathers and sons together,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will show no pity, no compassion, and no mercy to prevent their destruction.’
  • Hos 1:2 : 2 When the LORD first began speaking through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of promiscuity and children of promiscuity, for the land is utterly unfaithful to the LORD."
  • Hos 1:6 : 6 Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Call her Lo-Ruhamah (Not Pitied), for I will no longer show compassion to the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them."
  • Ezek 8:18 : 18 Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have compassion. Even though they cry out loudly in My ears, I will not hear them.'
  • Ezek 9:10 : 10 'But as for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I show pity. I will bring their actions back upon their own heads.'
  • Zech 1:12 : 12 Then the angel of the Lord said, 'Lord of Hosts, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?'
  • John 8:41 : 41 You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God."
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 So then, he has mercy on whom he wills, and he hardens whom he wills.
  • Rom 11:22 : 22 Consider then the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell but kindness to you, provided you continue in His kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
  • Jer 16:5 : 5 For this is what the LORD says: Do not enter a house of mourning. Do not go to lament or console them, for I have withdrawn My peace from this people, declares the LORD, as well as My lovingkindness and compassion.
  • 2 Kgs 9:22 : 22 When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, 'Do you come in peace, Jehu?' Jehu replied, 'How can there be peace as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are so many?'
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.
  • Isa 57:3 : 3 But as for you, come here, you offspring of sorceresses, you children of adulterers and prostitutes!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 2:5-6
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    85%

    5 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, expose her as on the day of her birth. I will make her like a wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.

    6 I will not show mercy to her children, for they are the children of unfaithfulness.

  • Hos 2:2-3
    2 verses
    84%

    2 The people of Judah and Israel will come together, appoint one leader, and rise up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.

    3 Say to your brothers, 'My people,' and to your sisters, 'She has received mercy.'

  • Jer 5:7
    78%

    7 How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

  • Jer 13:14
    76%

    14 And I will shatter them, one against another, fathers and sons together,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will show no pity, no compassion, and no mercy to prevent their destruction.’

  • Hos 2:10
    75%

    10 She did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and who lavished her with silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

  • Hos 5:3-4
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    75%

    3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the harlot; Israel is defiled.

    4 Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.

  • Ezek 16:35-36
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    75%

    35 Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD.

    36 This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children you gave to them,

  • Ezek 23:8-10
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    8 She did not abandon the adulteries she began in Egypt, where men slept with her in her youth, fondling her virgin breasts and pouring out their lust upon her.

    9 Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians whom she lusted after.

    10 They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and they carried out judgment against her.

  • Hos 1:6-8
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    74%

    6 Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Call her Lo-Ruhamah (Not Pitied), for I will no longer show compassion to the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them."

    7 But I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the LORD their God. I will not save them by bow or sword, by war, by horses, or by horsemen.

    8 After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son.

  • Hos 9:12
    74%

    12 Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!

  • Ezek 23:30
    74%

    30 These things will be done to you because you prostituted yourself to the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

  • Hos 4:14
    74%

    14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots and sacrifice with temple prostitutes, and a people without understanding will come to ruin.

  • Ezek 16:38
    73%

    38 I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood. I will bring upon you the wrath and jealousy of my judgment.

  • Hos 4:10
    73%

    10 They will eat but not be satisfied; they will commit fornication but not multiply, because they have abandoned the LORD to pursue their own ways.

  • Rev 2:21-22
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    73%

    21 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.

    22 Look, I will cast her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works.

  • Nah 3:4
    73%

    4 All this because of the abundant prostitution of a well-favored harlot, a skilled sorceress, who ensnares nations with her lust and peoples with her witchcraft.

  • Ps 109:12
    72%

    12 Let there be no one to show him kindness, and no one to be gracious to his fatherless children.

  • Exod 22:24
    72%

    24 If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.

  • Jer 16:3
    72%

    3 For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters born in this place, as well as their mothers who bear them and their fathers who father them in this land:

  • Isa 9:17
    72%

    17 For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns. It sets the thickets of the forest ablaze, and they roll upward in columns of smoke.

  • Jer 15:7
    72%

    7 I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land; I have bereaved and destroyed My people, yet they have not turned from their ways.

  • Isa 13:18
    72%

    18 Their bows will strike down the young men; they will show no mercy to the offspring of the womb, nor will they pity children.

  • Jer 3:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and prostituted herself.

    9 Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

  • Ezek 23:37
    72%

    37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, passing them through the fire as food for their idols.

  • Nah 3:10
    72%

    10 Yet she went into exile, carried away into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at every street corner. Lots were cast for her nobles, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Jer 2:30
    72%

    30 In vain I have struck your children; they accepted no discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion.

  • Isa 57:3
    71%

    3 But as for you, come here, you offspring of sorceresses, you children of adulterers and prostitutes!

  • Ezek 5:9
    71%

    9 Because of all your abominations, I will do what I have never done before and will never do again.

  • Ezek 16:20-22
    3 verses
    71%

    20 You even took the sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to the idols as food. Was your prostitution not enough?

    21 You slaughtered my children and offered them up by making them pass through fire to these idols.

    22 In all your detestable practices and prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

  • Hos 4:18
    71%

    18 Their drink has turned them aside; they persist in their immorality. They love shame more than their honor.

  • Hos 9:14
    71%

    14 Give them, LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.

  • Ezek 16:41
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    41 They will burn down your houses and execute judgment on you in the sight of many women. I will bring an end to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay fees to anyone.

  • Jer 3:20
    71%

    20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,' declares the LORD.

  • Ezek 23:43
    71%

    43 Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue their acts of fornication with her.’

  • Ezek 16:45
    71%

    45 You are a true daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. And you are a sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

  • Lam 1:5
    71%

    5 Her adversaries have become her masters; her enemies prosper because the LORD has afflicted her for her many sins. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

  • Num 14:33
    71%

    33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, bearing the consequences of your unfaithfulness, until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.

  • Hos 4:6
    71%

    6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.