Hosea 2:6

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

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  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.
  • Job 3:23 : 23 To a man whose path is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
  • Lam 3:7-9 : 7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains. 8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. 9 He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.
  • Luke 15:14-16 : 14 After he had spent everything, a severe famine arose throughout that country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
  • Luke 19:43 : 43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

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  • Hos 2:7-10
    4 verses
    84%

    7 Their mother has been unfaithful; their conceiver acted shamefully. She said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread, water, wool, flax, oil, and drink.'

    8 Therefore, I will block her way with thorns and build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.

    9 She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go back to my first husband, because it was better for me then than now.'

    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 2:2-5
    4 verses
    79%

    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.'

    4 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.

    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.

  • Hos 2:12-15
    4 verses
    76%

    12 Now I will uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers; no one will deliver her out of my hand.

    13 I will put an end to all her celebrations: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.

    14 I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thought were her wages from her lovers. I will turn them into a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.

    15 I will punish her for the days she burned incense to Baal, adorned herself with her rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But she forgot me, declares the LORD.

  • Ps 80:12
    76%

    12 It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River.

  • Jer 2:20
    74%

    20 For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, but you said, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

  • Jer 3:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    7 I thought, 'After she has done all this, she will return to me.' But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.

    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.

  • Jer 2:25
    74%

    25 Keep your feet from going bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It’s hopeless! I love foreigners, and I will follow them.’

  • Ezek 16:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31 When you built your mounds at the head of every road and made your high places in every street, you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

    32 You adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • Jer 4:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 They surround her like men guarding a field because she has rebelled against me, declares the LORD.

    18 Your own way and your deeds have caused this to you; this is your calamity. How bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.

  • Prov 2:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

    18 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed spirits.

  • Ezek 16:37-38
    2 verses
    73%

    37 therefore I am going to gather all your lovers with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side, and I will expose your nakedness to them, so they may see all your shame.

    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.

  • Jer 2:33
    73%

    33 How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women you have taught your ways.

  • Ezek 23:30
    73%

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

  • Jer 6:21
    73%

    21 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'I am placing stumbling blocks before this people. Fathers and sons alike will stumble over them; neighbors and friends will perish.'

  • Prov 5:6
    73%

    6 She does not consider the path of life; her ways wander, but she does not know it.

  • Isa 5:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 Now let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.

    6 I will make it a wasteland; it will neither be pruned nor hoed, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.

  • Ezek 16:35
    72%

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

  • Jer 11:15
    72%

    15 What right does my beloved have in my house, when she has done so many wicked schemes? Can consecrated meat remove your evil? Then you would exult!

  • Jer 31:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 Set up road markers for yourself; make guideposts. Take note of the road, the way by which you traveled. Return, O virgin Israel, return to your towns.

    22 How long will you wander, O unfaithful daughter? For the LORD has created something new in the land—a woman will surround a man.

  • Lam 3:9
    72%

    9 He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • Jer 3:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1 If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, should he take her back again? Wouldn't such a land become completely defiled? You have lived as a prostitute with many lovers—yet you want to return to me? declares the LORD.

    2 Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been violated? By the roads you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

    3 Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen face of a prostitute; you refuse to show any shame.

  • Mic 1:7
    72%

    7 All her carved images will be broken to pieces, all her earnings will be burned with fire, and all her idols I will destroy. Since she gathered them as wages of a prostitute, they will return to the wages of a prostitute.

  • Jer 3:20
    72%

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

  • Prov 7:25
    72%

    25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

  • Ezek 16:43
    71%

    43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will bring your conduct down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your other detestable acts?

  • Ezek 23:22
    71%

    22 Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'I am about to stir up your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side—

  • Jer 13:26
    71%

    26 So I will expose your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.

  • 2 Kgs 19:28
    71%

    28 Because of your raging against Me and your arrogance that has reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way you came.

  • Zech 2:5
    71%

    5 I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

  • Ezek 16:41
    71%

    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.

  • Lam 1:10
    71%

    10 The enemy has laid hands on all her treasures; she saw nations enter her sanctuary—those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.