Hosea 2:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

And I will not have mercy on her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.

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  • Jer 13:14 : 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says the LORD: I will have no pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
  • Hos 1:2 : 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD through Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry, departing from the LORD.
  • Hos 1:6 : 6 And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And God said to him, Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, but I will utterly take them away.
  • Ezek 8:18 : 18 Therefore I will also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.
  • Ezek 9:10 : 10 And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
  • Zech 1:12 : 12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You have had indignation these seventy years?
  • John 8:41 : 41 You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
  • Rom 11:22 : 22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
  • Jer 16:5 : 5 For thus says the LORD, Do not enter the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
  • 2 Kgs 9:22 : 22 And it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.
  • Isa 57:3 : 3 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the offspring of the adulterer and the whore.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 2:5-6
    2 verses
    85%

    5 For their mother has played the harlot: she who conceived them has acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

    6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so she shall not find her paths.

  • Hos 2:2-3
    2 verses
    84%

    2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

    3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

  • Jer 5:7
    78%

    7 How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

  • Jer 13:14
    76%

    14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says the LORD: I will have no pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

  • Hos 2:10
    75%

    10 And now I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall rescue her out of my hand.

  • Hos 5:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me: for now, O Ephraim, you commit whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

    4 They will not direct their deeds to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitution is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

  • Ezek 16:35-36
    2 verses
    75%

    35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD;

    36 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you gave to them:

  • Ezek 23:8-10
    3 verses
    74%

    8 She did not leave her harlotries brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their harlotry upon her.

    9 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she lusted.

    10 They uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and killed her with the sword: and she became notorious among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

  • Hos 1:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6 And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And God said to him, Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, but I will utterly take them away.

    7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

    8 Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.

  • Hos 9:12
    74%

    12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!

  • Ezek 23:30
    74%

    30 I will do these things to you, because you have gone a whoring after the heathen, and because you are polluted with their idols.

  • Hos 4:14
    74%

    14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery, for the men themselves are separated with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. Therefore, the people who do not understand shall fall.

  • Ezek 16:38
    73%

    38 And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.

  • Hos 4:10
    73%

    10 For they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase, because they have ceased taking heed to the LORD.

  • Rev 2:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21 And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.

    22 Indeed I will cast her into a bed of suffering, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.

  • Nah 3:4
    73%

    4 Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her sorceries.

  • Ps 109:12
    72%

    12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

  • Exod 22:24
    72%

    24 and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

  • Jer 16:3
    72%

    3 For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

  • Isa 9:17
    72%

    17 Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Jer 15:7
    72%

    7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they do not return from their ways.

  • Isa 13:18
    72%

    18 Their bows will dash the young men to pieces; and they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye will not spare children.

  • Jer 3:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

    9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

  • Ezek 23:37
    72%

    37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire, to devour them.

  • Nah 3:10
    72%

    10 Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Jer 2:30
    72%

    30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

  • Isa 57:3
    71%

    3 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the offspring of the adulterer and the whore.

  • Ezek 5:9
    71%

    9 And I will do in you what I have not done, and the like of which I will not do anymore, because of all your abominations.

  • Ezek 16:20-22
    3 verses
    71%

    20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Is this of your whoredoms a small matter,

    21 That you have slain my children and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

    22 And in all your abominations and your whoredoms you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were polluted in your blood.

  • Hos 4:18
    71%

    18 Their drink is sour; they have committed harlotry continually; her rulers dearly love dishonor.

  • Hos 9:14
    71%

    14 Give them, O LORD: what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • Ezek 16:41
    71%

    41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no remuneration any more.

  • Jer 3:20
    71%

    20 Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.

  • Ezek 23:43
    71%

    43 Then said I to her who was old in adulteries, Will they now commit harlotries with her, and she with them?

  • Ezek 16:45
    71%

    45 You are your mother's daughter, that loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathe their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

  • Lam 1:5
    71%

    5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

  • Num 14:33
    71%

    33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your faithlessness, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

  • Hos 4:6
    71%

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