Proverbs 2:17
who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.
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- Jer 3:4 : 4 Even now you say to me,‘You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.
- Ezek 16:8 : 8 “‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.
- Ezek 16:59-60 : 59 “‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant. 60 Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.
- Prov 5:18 : 18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–
- Mal 2:14-16 : 14 Yet you ask,“Why?” The LORD is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law. 15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth. 16 “I hate divorce,” says the LORD God of Israel,“and the one who is guilty of violence,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.”
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18For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits.
19None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
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16to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words;
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5Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.
6Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will guard you.
- Jer 2:32-332 verses77%
32Does a young woman forget to put on her jewels? Does a bride forget to put on her bridal attire? But my people have forgotten me for more days than can even be counted.
33“My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!
- Prov 5:18-203 verses76%
18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–
19a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.
20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
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32“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
- Hos 2:5-73 verses76%
5For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said,“I will seek out my lovers; they are the ones who give me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.
6The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
7Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say,“I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now.”
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14Yet you ask,“Why?” The LORD is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.
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20But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel, like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband,” says the LORD.
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25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways;
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35“Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you have forgotten me and completely disregarded me, you must bear now the punishment for your obscene conduct and prostitution.”
- Prov 6:24-263 verses74%
24by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
26for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.
- Jer 2:19-202 verses74%
19Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the LORD your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
20The Lord Expresses His Exasperation at Judah’s Persistent Idolatry“Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority and refused to be subject to me. You said,‘I will not serve you.’ Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill and under every green tree, like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.
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6Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.
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17You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the LORD your God when he was leading you along the right path.
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5so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.
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6“Indeed, the LORD will call you back like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, like a young wife when she has been rejected,” says your God.
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13“I will punish her for the festival days when she burned incense to the Baal idols; she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but she forgot me!” says the LORD.
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8Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
9lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
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43“‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, declares the Sovereign LORD. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?
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15The LORD says to the people of Judah,“What right do you have to be in my temple, my beloved people? Many of you have done wicked things. Can your acts of treachery be so easily canceled by sacred offerings that you take joy in doing evil even while you make them?
- Ezek 23:17-193 verses72%
17The Babylonians crawled into bed with her. They defiled her with their lust; after she was defiled by them, she became disgusted with them.
18When she lustfully exposed her nakedness, I was disgusted with her, just as I had been disgusted with her sister.
19Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.
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27for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.
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13who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,
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14The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
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22Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare
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10Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family!
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6You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.
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25Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say,‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’
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8He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house
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11Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy things that the LORD loves and has turned to a foreign god!
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32A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, whoever does it destroys his own life.
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25Then people will say,“Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
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20My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
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11Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.
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20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
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17You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution with them.