Hosea 1:2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of [her] prostitution; for the...

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Amplified Bible - When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of [her] prostitution; for the land commits great acts of prostitution by not following the Lord.”
新标点和合本 - 耶和华初次与何西阿说话，对他说：“你去娶淫妇为妻，也收那从淫乱所生的儿女；因为这地大行淫乱，离弃耶和华。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 耶和华初次向何西阿说话。耶和华对他说：“你去娶一个淫荡的女子为妻，收那从淫乱所生的儿女；因为这地行大淫乱，离弃耶和华。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 耶和华初次向何西阿说话。耶和华对他说：“你去娶一个淫荡的女子为妻，收那从淫乱所生的儿女；因为这地行大淫乱，离弃耶和华。”
当代译本 - 耶和华首次传话给何西阿时，对他说：“你去娶一个妓女为妻，和她生养儿女，因为这片土地上的人极其淫乱，背弃了耶和华。”
圣经新译本 - 耶和华初次藉着何西阿说话。耶和华对何西阿说：“你去娶一个像娼妓一样的女人，生养像娼妓一样的儿女，因为这地盛行淫乱，离开了耶和华。”
现代标点和合本 - 耶和华初次与何西阿说话，对他说：“你去娶淫妇为妻，也收那从淫乱所生的儿女，因为这地大行淫乱，离弃耶和华。”
和合本（拼音版） - 耶和华初次与何西阿说话，对他说：“你去娶淫妇为妻，也收那从淫乱所生的儿女；因为这地大行淫乱，离弃耶和华。”
New International Version - When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.”
New International Reader's Version - The Lord began to speak through Hosea. He said to him, “Go. Marry a woman who has sex with anyone she wants. Have children with her. Do this because the people of the land are like that kind of wife. They have not been faithful to me.”
English Standard Version - When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”
New Living Translation - When the Lord first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, “Go and marry a prostitute, so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution. This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the Lord and worshiping other gods.”
The Message - The first time God spoke to Hosea he said: “Find a whore and marry her. Make this whore the mother of your children. And here’s why: This whole country has become a whorehouse, unfaithful to me, God.”
Christian Standard Bible - When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity, and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the Lord.
New American Standard Bible - When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife inclined to infidelity, and children of infidelity; for the land commits flagrant infidelity, abandoning the Lord.”
New King James Version - When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry And children of harlotry, For the land has committed great harlotry By departing from the Lord.”
American Standard Version - When Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah.
King James Version - The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.
New English Translation - When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, he said to him, “Go marry a prostitute who will bear illegitimate children conceived through prostitution, because the nation continually commits spiritual prostitution by turning away from the Lord.”
World English Bible - When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”
新標點和合本 - 耶和華初次與何西阿說話，對他說：「你去娶淫婦為妻，也收那從淫亂所生的兒女；因為這地大行淫亂，離棄耶和華。」
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 耶和華初次向何西阿說話。耶和華對他說：「你去娶一個淫蕩的女子為妻，收那從淫亂所生的兒女；因為這地行大淫亂，離棄耶和華。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 耶和華初次向何西阿說話。耶和華對他說：「你去娶一個淫蕩的女子為妻，收那從淫亂所生的兒女；因為這地行大淫亂，離棄耶和華。」
當代譯本 - 耶和華首次傳話給何西阿時，對他說：「你去娶一個妓女為妻，和她生養兒女，因為這片土地上的人極其淫亂，背棄了耶和華。」
聖經新譯本 - 耶和華初次藉著何西阿說話。耶和華對何西阿說：“你去娶一個像娼妓一樣的女人，生養像娼妓一樣的兒女，因為這地盛行淫亂，離開了耶和華。”
呂振中譯本 - 永恆主開始同何西阿講話，對何西阿說：『你去，娶淫婦為妻，收取淫亂生的兒女；因為這地大行淫亂、離棄了永恆主。』
現代標點和合本 - 耶和華初次與何西阿說話，對他說：「你去娶淫婦為妻，也收那從淫亂所生的兒女，因為這地大行淫亂，離棄耶和華。」
文理和合譯本 - 耶和華初諭何西阿時、謂之曰、爾往娶淫婦、得其由淫而生之子、蓋斯土行淫特甚、離棄耶和華、
文理委辦譯本 - 耶和華首告何西曰、斯土之民、狥其私欲、違逆乎我、爾娶淫婦而生子、人必被其子以惡名、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主初與何西阿言諭之曰、爾往娶淫婦為妻、生子、人疑為由淫所生、人疑為由淫所生或作被人藐視因淫婦所生以指斯地之民、如淫婦棄主、不復從之、如淫婦棄主不復從之或作棄主而從邪淫
Nueva Versión Internacional - La primera vez que el Señor habló por medio de Oseas, le dijo: «Ve y toma por esposa una prostituta, y ten con ella hijos de prostitución, porque el país se ha prostituido por completo. ¡Se ha apartado del Señor!»
현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 호세아에게 처음 말씀하셨을 때 이렇게 말씀하셨다. “너는 가서 창녀와 결혼하여 음란한 자녀를 낳아라. 이 백성이 나를 떠나 더러운 창녀짓을 하고 있다.”
Новый Русский Перевод - Когда Господь начал говорить через Осию, Он сказал ему: – Пойди, возьми себе в жены блудницу и с ней детей ее разврата , потому что эта земля погрязла в ужасном распутстве, отвернувшись от Господа.
Восточный перевод - Когда Вечный начал говорить через Осию, Он сказал ему: – Пойди и возьми себе в жёны блудницу и с ней детей её разврата , потому что эта земля погрязла в ужасном распутстве, отвернувшись от Вечного.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Когда Вечный начал говорить через Осию, Он сказал ему: – Пойди и возьми себе в жёны блудницу и с ней детей её разврата , потому что эта земля погрязла в ужасном распутстве, отвернувшись от Вечного.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Когда Вечный начал говорить через Осию, Он сказал ему: – Пойди и возьми себе в жёны блудницу и с ней детей её разврата , потому что эта земля погрязла в ужасном распутстве, отвернувшись от Вечного.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Première partie des paroles que l’Eternel prononça par Osée : L’Eternel dit à Osée : Va, prends une femme qui se livre à la prostitution, et des enfants nés de la prostitution, car le pays se vautre dans la prostitution en se détournant de l’Eternel .
リビングバイブル - 最初に告げられたのはこうです。「遊女と結婚せよ。その女から生まれる子どものうちには、ほかの男が父親である子もいる。そのことは、わたしの民がわたしに対して不誠実であることを表している。彼らは他の神々を礼拝し、わたしを無視して、堂々と姦淫をしている。」
Nova Versão Internacional - Quando o Senhor começou a falar por meio de Oseias, disse-lhe: “Vá, tome uma mulher adúltera e filhos da infidelidade, porque a nação é culpada do mais vergonhoso adultério por afastar-se do Senhor”.
Hoffnung für alle - Als der Herr zum ersten Mal zu Hosea sprach, befahl er ihm: »Such dir eine Hure und nimm sie zur Frau! Du sollst Kinder haben, die von einer Hure geboren wurden. Denn auch mein Volk ist wie eine Hure: Es ist mir untreu und läuft fremden Göttern nach.«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Khi Chúa Hằng Hữu bắt đầu truyền sứ điệp về Ít-ra-ên qua Ô-sê, Ngài phán bảo ông: “Hãy đi và cưới một gái mãi dâm, rồi con cái của nàng sẽ là con sinh trong sự mãi dâm. Đây sẽ là minh họa về Ít-ra-ên đã hành động như gái mãi dâm, đã lìa bỏ Chúa Hằng Hữu mà thờ phụng các thần khác.”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เมื่อองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าเริ่มตรัสผ่านโฮเชยานั้น องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าตรัสกับเขาว่า “จงไปรับหญิงเจ้าชู้มาเป็นภรรยา และรับลูกๆ ที่เกิดจากความไม่ซื่อสัตย์ของนางมาด้วย เพราะว่าดินแดนนี้มีความผิดฐานล่วงประเวณีอย่างร้ายแรงที่สุดโดยการละทิ้งองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เมื่อพระผู้เป็นเจ้าเริ่มกล่าวผ่านโฮเชยา พระผู้เป็นเจ้ากล่าวกับโฮเชยาดังนี้ “จงไปรับหญิงผู้ผิดประเวณีมาเป็นภรรยาของเจ้า และมีลูกๆ ที่เกิดจากการผิดประเวณี เพราะแผ่นดินประพฤติผิดประเวณีอย่างร้ายแรงเมื่อได้ทอดทิ้งพระผู้เป็นเจ้า”

Cross Reference

Jeremiah 2:13 - “For My people have committed two evils: They have abandoned (rejected) Me, The fountain of living water, And they have carved out their own cisterns, Broken cisterns That cannot hold water.
Jeremiah 3:1 - That is to say, “If a man divorces his wife And she goes [away] from him And becomes another man’s [wife], Will he return to her again? [Of course not!] Will not that land [where such a thing happened] be completely desecrated? But you [rebelled against Me and you] are a prostitute with many lovers; Yet you turn to Me.” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:2 - “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see; Where have you not been violated? You sat by the road waiting [eagerly] for them [those man-made gods] Like an Arab [tribesman who waits to attack] in the desert, And you have desecrated the land With your [vile] prostitution and your wickedness (disobedience to God).
Jeremiah 3:3 - Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. Yet you have the forehead (appearance) of a prostitute; You refuse to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 3:4 - Will you not just now call out to Me, ‘My Father, you were the guide and companion of my youth?
2 Chronicles 21:13 - but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful [to God] as the house of Ahab was unfaithful, and you have also murdered your brothers, your father’s house (your own family), who were better than you,
Psalms 73:27 - For behold, those who are far from You will perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful and have abandoned You.
Isaiah 20:2 - at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, untie the sackcloth from your hips and take your sandals off your feet.” And he did so, walking around stripped [to his loincloth] and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:3 - And the Lord said, “Even as My servant Isaiah has walked stripped and barefoot for three years as a sign and forewarning concerning Egypt and Cush (Ethiopia),
Ezekiel 4:1 - “Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you and inscribe on it [a diagram of] the city of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 4:2 - Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise a ramp against it; set up [enemy] camps and place battering rams all around it.
Ezekiel 4:3 - Further, take an iron plate and place it as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:4 - “Then lie down on your left side (toward the north) to bear [symbolically] the wickedness and punishment of the house of Israel. You shall bear their wickedness and punishment for the number of days that you lie on your side.
Ezekiel 4:5 - For I have assigned you the years of their wickedness and punishment, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days [representing three hundred and ninety years]; in this way you shall bear [symbolically] the wickedness and punishment of the house of Israel.
Hosea 5:3 - I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you have played the prostitute and have worshiped idols; Israel has defiled itself.
Ezekiel 16:1 - Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 16:2 - “Son of man, make Jerusalem understand [the heinous and vile nature of] her repulsive (idolatrous) acts
Ezekiel 16:3 - and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem (all of Israel), “Your [spiritual] origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your [spiritual] father was an Amorite and your [spiritual] mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:4 - And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing, nor were you rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.
Ezekiel 16:5 - No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out in the open field, for you were loathed on the day that you were born.
Ezekiel 16:6 - “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your [newborn] blood, I said to you while you were there in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were there in your blood, ‘Live!’
Ezekiel 16:7 - I made you (Israel) multiply like plants [which grow] in the field, and you grew up and became tall and you reached the age for [wearing] fine jewelry; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:8 - “Then I passed by you [again] and looked on you; behold, you were maturing and at the time for love, and I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore [an oath] to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord God, “and you became Mine.”
Ezekiel 16:9 - “Then I washed you with water; yes, I [thoroughly] washed away from you the [clinging] blood and anointed you with oil.
Ezekiel 16:10 - I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
Ezekiel 16:11 - I adorned you with ornaments and I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.
Ezekiel 16:12 - I also put a ring in your nostril and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
Ezekiel 16:13 - Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was [made] of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil; so you were extremely beautiful and you advanced and prospered into royalty.
Ezekiel 16:14 - Then your fame went out among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My majesty and splendor which I bestowed on you,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:15 - “But you trusted in and relied on your beauty and prostituted yourself [in idolatry and its debauched rituals] because of your fame, and you poured out your immoralities on every [willing] passer-by and your beauty was his [as you worshiped the idols of the Gentile nations].
Ezekiel 16:16 - You took some of your clothes and made for yourself [decorated] high places and shrines of various colors and prostituted yourself on them—things which should never have come about and taken place.
Ezekiel 16:17 - You also took your beautiful jewels and beautiful vessels made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men so that you could prostitute yourself with them;
Ezekiel 16:18 - and you took your embroidered clothing and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.
Ezekiel 16:19 - Also My bread which I gave you, [made from the] fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, you even offered it before idols [no better than cow dung] as a sweet and soothing aroma; so it happened,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:20 - “Moreover, you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne to Me, and you destroyed them as sacrifices [to your man-made gods]. Were your gross immoralities so small a matter?
Ezekiel 16:21 - You slaughtered My children and offered them up to [worthless] idols, forcing them to pass through the [hideousness of the] fire.
Ezekiel 16:22 - And in all your repulsive acts and prostitutions (idolatrous immoralities) you did not [pause to] remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, squirming in your [newborn] blood.
Ezekiel 16:23 - “Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God),
Ezekiel 16:24 - that you built yourself an altar for prostitution and made yourself a high place [for ritual prostitution] in every square [of Jerusalem].
Ezekiel 16:25 - At the beginning of every street you built your high place and made your beauty repulsive; and you offered your body to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene immorality.
Ezekiel 16:26 - You also prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors [by embracing their pagan rituals], and you multiplied your obscene immorality to provoke Me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:27 - Behold now [listen very carefully], I have stretched out My hand against you, reduced your portion, and handed you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your infamous behavior.
Ezekiel 16:28 - You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you prostituted yourself with them and still were not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29 - Moreover, you increased your obscene immorality with the land of tradesmen, Chaldea (Babylonia), and yet even with this you were not satisfied.” ’ ”
Ezekiel 16:30 - “How weakened by longing and lust is your heart (mind),” says the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold and brazen prostitute.
Ezekiel 16:31 - When you built your shrine altar for prostitution at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, you were not like a prostitute because you refused payment.
Ezekiel 16:32 - You adulterous wife, who welcomes and receives strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:33 - Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, bribing the pagan nations to come to you [as allies] from every direction for your obscene immoralities.
Ezekiel 16:34 - And you are different from other [unfaithful] women in your promiscuity, in that no one follows you to lure you into prostitution, and because you give money and no money is given you; in this way you are different.”
Ezekiel 16:35 - Therefore, O prostitute [Israel], hear the word of the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:36 - Thus says the Lord God, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your obscene immoralities with your lovers (pagan allies), and with all your [repulsive] idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to them,
Ezekiel 16:37 - therefore, listen, I will gather all your lovers (pagan allies) with whom you took pleasure, and all those whom you loved with all those whom you hated; I will even gather them against you from every direction and will expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness [making you, Israel, an object of loathing and of mockery, a spectacle among the nations].
Ezekiel 16:38 - And I [the Lord God] will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezekiel 16:39 - I will also hand you over to your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and they will leave you naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:40 - They will also incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and slaughter you with their swords.
Ezekiel 16:41 - They will burn down your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women (Gentile nations). Then I will make you cease your prostitution, and you will no longer hire your lovers.
Ezekiel 16:42 - So I will calm My wrath toward you and My jealousy [resulting from being denied what is rightfully and uniquely mine] will turn away from you; I will be pacified and no longer angry.
Ezekiel 16:43 - Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me with all these things, therefore, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head,” says the Lord God, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other repulsive acts.
Ezekiel 16:44 - “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
Ezekiel 16:45 - You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. You are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your [spiritual] mother was a Hittite and your [spiritual] father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46 - Now your older sister is Samaria, she with her daughters (outlying cities) who live north of you; and your younger sister is Sodom, she with her daughters who live south of you.
Ezekiel 16:47 - Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or behaved in accordance with their pagan practices; but, as if that were too little, you [soon] acted more corruptly in all your ways than they.
Ezekiel 16:48 - As I live,” says the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Ezekiel 16:49 - Behold, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters (outlying cities) had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:50 - They were haughty and committed repulsive acts before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.
Ezekiel 16:51 - Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, but you have greatly increased your repulsive acts more than they. So you have made your [wicked] sisters [Samaria and Sodom] appear righteous and justified by [comparison to] all the disgusting things which you have done.
Ezekiel 16:52 - Also bear your disgrace [as punishment], having made judgment favorable for your sisters, for [you virtually absolved them] because of your sins in which you behaved more repulsively than they; they are more in the right than you. Yes, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you made your [pagan] sisters seem righteous.
Ezekiel 16:53 - “Nevertheless, I will restore them [again] from their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters (outlying cities), the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them [I will restore you from] your own captivity [in the day of the Lord God],
Ezekiel 16:54 - so that you [Judah] will bear your humiliation and disgrace, and be [thoroughly] ashamed for all [the wickedness] that you have done to console and comfort them.
Ezekiel 16:55 - Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state; and you and your daughters will return to your former state.
Ezekiel 16:56 - For [the name of] your sister Sodom was not mentioned by you [except as a byword] in the day of your pride [when David ruled],
Ezekiel 16:57 - before your [own] wickedness was uncovered. Now you have become an object of reproach and a byword for the daughters of Aram and of Edom and all who are around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you.
Ezekiel 16:58 - You have borne [the penalty of] your lewdness and your repulsive acts,” says the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:59 - Yes, thus says the Lord God, “I will also deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
Ezekiel 16:60 - “Nevertheless, I will remember [with compassion] My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant [with Me].
Ezekiel 16:62 - And I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord,
Ezekiel 16:63 - so that you may remember [in detail] and be ashamed and never open your mouth again because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done,” says the Lord God.
Mark 1:1 - The beginning of the [facts regarding the] good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Jeremiah 13:1 - Thus the Lord said to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it on your loins, but do not put it in water.”
Jeremiah 13:2 - So I bought the waistband according to the word of the Lord and put it on my loins.
Jeremiah 13:3 - Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,
Jeremiah 13:4 - “Get up and take the waistband that you have bought, which is [wrapped] around your loins, and go to the [river] Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.”
Jeremiah 13:5 - So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded me.
Jeremiah 13:6 - And after many days the Lord said to me, “Get up, go to the Euphrates and get the waistband which I commanded you to hide there.”
Jeremiah 13:7 - Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the waistband was decayed and ruined; it was completely worthless.
Jeremiah 13:8 - Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 13:9 - “Thus says the Lord, ‘In this same way I shall destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:10 - These wicked and malevolent people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubborn way of their heart and have followed other gods [which are nothing—just man-made carvings] to serve them and to worship them, let them be just like this waistband which is completely worthless.
Jeremiah 13:11 - For as the waistband clings to the body of a man, so I caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me,’ says the Lord, ‘that they might be for Me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory; but they did not listen and obey.’
Ezekiel 6:9 - Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be exiled, how I have been broken by their lewdness and their adulterous hearts which have turned away from Me, and by their eyes which lust after their idols; and they will loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed, for all their repulsive acts.
Revelation 17:5 - And on her forehead a name was written, a mystery: “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES (false religions, heresies) AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
2 Peter 2:14 - They have eyes full of adultery, constantly looking for sin, enticing and luring away unstable souls. Having hearts trained in greed, [they are] children of a curse.
Ezekiel 23:1 - The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
Ezekiel 23:2 - “Son of man, there were two women (Israel and Judah), the daughters of one mother (the united kingdom);
Ezekiel 23:3 - and they prostituted themselves in Egypt. From their youth they were grossly immoral; in that place their breasts were embraced and their virgin bosom was grasped.
Ezekiel 23:4 - Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister, and they became Mine and they gave birth to sons and daughters. And as for [the identity of] their names, Oholah is Samaria (capital city of Israel) and Oholibah is Jerusalem (capital city of Judah).
Ezekiel 23:5 - “Oholah played the prostitute while she was Mine; and she adored and lusted after her lovers (allies), the Assyrians, her neighbors,
Ezekiel 23:6 - who were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding on horses.
Ezekiel 23:7 - She bestowed [freely] her immoralities on them, the choicest men of Assyria, all of them; and with all whom she adored and lusted after, she defiled herself with their idols.
Ezekiel 23:8 - She did not give up the acts of prostitution that originated during her time in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their depravity on her.
Ezekiel 23:9 - Therefore, I placed her in the hand of her lovers (allies), into the hand of the Assyrians whom she adored.
Ezekiel 23:10 - They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters and they killed her with the sword. So she became notorious among women, and they executed judgments on her.
Ezekiel 23:11 - “Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her acts of prostitution were more [wanton] than the immoralities of her sister.
Ezekiel 23:12 - She lusted after the Assyrians—governors and officials, her neighbors, magnificently clothed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
Ezekiel 23:13 - I saw that she had defiled herself; they both behaved the same way.
Ezekiel 23:14 - But Oholibah carried her depravity further, for she saw men pictured on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans (Babylonians) sketched and portrayed in vermilion (bright red pigment),
Ezekiel 23:15 - girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonian men whose native land was Chaldea.
Ezekiel 23:16 - When she saw [the sketches of] them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
Ezekiel 23:17 - The Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and they defiled her with their evil desire; and when she had been defiled by them, she (Jerusalem) broke the relationship and pushed them away from her in disgust.
Ezekiel 23:18 - So she flaunted her acts of prostitution and exposed her nakedness; then I became disgusted with her [and turned away], as I had become disgusted with her sister [and turned away].
Ezekiel 23:19 - Yet she multiplied her depravities, remembering the days of her youth, when she was actively immoral in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:20 - For she lusted after her lovers [there], whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Ezekiel 23:21 - Thus you longed for the lewdness and vulgarity of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom on account of the breasts of your youth.
Ezekiel 23:22 - “Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I will stir up your lovers (allies) against you, from whom you turned away in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
Ezekiel 23:23 - the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, princes, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
Ezekiel 23:24 - They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of people (infantry) who will array themselves against you on every side with large shield and small, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment and the punishment to them, and they will judge and punish you in accordance with their [pagan] customs.
Ezekiel 23:25 - I will set My jealous indignation against you [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely mine], and they will deal with you in fury. They will remove your nose and your ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the survivors will be devoured by the fire.
Ezekiel 23:26 - They will also strip you (Judah) of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.
Ezekiel 23:27 - Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your prostitution brought from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt [with longing] anymore.’
Ezekiel 23:28 - For thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I will place you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned away in disgust.
Ezekiel 23:29 - They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your depravity will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your obscene practices.
Ezekiel 23:30 - These things will be done to you because you have prostituted yourself with the [Gentile] nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols.
Ezekiel 23:31 - You have walked in the way of your sister (Samaria); therefore I will give her cup [of judgment] into your hand.’
Ezekiel 23:32 - Thus says the Lord God, ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, Which is deep and wide [and filled to the brim]. You shall be laughed at and derided; It contains much [too much to endure].
Ezekiel 23:33 - You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, With the cup of horror and desolation, With the cup of your sister Samaria.
Ezekiel 23:34 - You will drink it and drain it, Then you will gnaw its fragments And tear your breasts; for I have spoken,’ says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 23:35 - Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore bear now [the consequences of] your lewdness and prostitution.’ ”
Ezekiel 23:36 - Moreover, the Lord said to me, “Son of man, will you judge Oholah (Samaria, capital of Israel) and Oholibah (Jerusalem, capital of Judah)? Then inform them of their atrocities [the detestable and vile things they do].
Ezekiel 23:37 - For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery [against Me] with their idols and have even forced their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire as [an offering of] food to them (idols).
Ezekiel 23:38 - Moreover, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day [of their idolatries] and have profaned My Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 23:39 - For when they had killed their children [as offerings] to their idols, then they came the same day to My sanctuary to profane it [by daring to offer a sacrifice there also]. And behold, this they did within My house.
Ezekiel 23:40 - “Furthermore, you have even sent a messenger for men to come from far away; and behold, they came—those for whom you bathed, painted your eyes, and decorated yourself with ornaments;
Ezekiel 23:41 - and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.
Ezekiel 23:42 - The sound of a carefree crowd was with her; and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of a common sort, who put bracelets on the hands of the women (both sisters) and beautiful crowns on their heads.
Ezekiel 23:43 - “Then I said concerning the one (Oholah) worn out by adulteries, ‘Will they now commit adultery with her when she is like this?’
Ezekiel 23:44 - But they committed adultery with her as they would with a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah (Israel) and to Oholibah (Judah), the lewd women.
Ezekiel 23:45 - And they, righteous men, will judge and condemn them with the judgment (punishment) of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
Ezekiel 23:46 - “For thus says the Lord God, ‘Bring up a horde (mob) against them and hand them over to terror and plunder.
Ezekiel 23:47 - And the horde will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and their daughters and burn down their houses with fire.
Ezekiel 23:48 - Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land, that all women may be admonished and taught not to commit immoral acts as you have done.
Ezekiel 23:49 - Thus your lewdness will be repaid to you, and you will suffer the penalty for your [sinful] idolatry; and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord God.’ ”
Exodus 34:15 - otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the prostitute with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat his sacrifice (meal),
Exodus 34:16 - and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters would play the prostitute with their gods and cause your sons also to play the prostitute (commit apostasy) with their gods [that is, abandon the true God for man-made idols].
Revelation 17:1 - Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the judgment and doom of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters [influencing nations],
Revelation 17:2 - she with whom the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality, and the inhabitants of the earth have become intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”
Psalms 106:39 - In this way they became unclean in their practices; They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”].
Jeremiah 3:9 - Because of the thoughtlessness of Israel’s prostitution [her immorality mattered little to her], she desecrated the land and committed adultery with [idols of] stones and trees.
Hosea 2:4 - Also, I will have no mercy on her children, Because they are the children of prostitution.
Hosea 2:5 - For their mother has played the prostitute; She who conceived them has acted shamefully, For she said, ‘I will pursue my lovers Who give me my food and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my [refreshing] drinks.’
Deuteronomy 31:16 - The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down [in death] with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the prostitute (commit apostasy) with the foreign gods [of the people] of the land, where they go to be among them. They will abandon (turn away from) Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.
Hosea 3:1 - Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman ( Gomer) who is beloved by her husband and yet is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love the raisin cakes [used in the feasts in pagan worship].”

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Amplified Bible - When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of [her] prostitution; for the land commits great acts of prostitution by not following the Lord.”
新标点和合本 - 耶和华初次与何西阿说话，对他说：“你去娶淫妇为妻，也收那从淫乱所生的儿女；因为这地大行淫乱，离弃耶和华。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 耶和华初次向何西阿说话。耶和华对他说：“你去娶一个淫荡的女子为妻，收那从淫乱所生的儿女；因为这地行大淫乱，离弃耶和华。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 耶和华初次向何西阿说话。耶和华对他说：“你去娶一个淫荡的女子为妻，收那从淫乱所生的儿女；因为这地行大淫乱，离弃耶和华。”
当代译本 - 耶和华首次传话给何西阿时，对他说：“你去娶一个妓女为妻，和她生养儿女，因为这片土地上的人极其淫乱，背弃了耶和华。”
圣经新译本 - 耶和华初次藉着何西阿说话。耶和华对何西阿说：“你去娶一个像娼妓一样的女人，生养像娼妓一样的儿女，因为这地盛行淫乱，离开了耶和华。”
现代标点和合本 - 耶和华初次与何西阿说话，对他说：“你去娶淫妇为妻，也收那从淫乱所生的儿女，因为这地大行淫乱，离弃耶和华。”
和合本（拼音版） - 耶和华初次与何西阿说话，对他说：“你去娶淫妇为妻，也收那从淫乱所生的儿女；因为这地大行淫乱，离弃耶和华。”
New International Version - When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.”
New International Reader's Version - The Lord began to speak through Hosea. He said to him, “Go. Marry a woman who has sex with anyone she wants. Have children with her. Do this because the people of the land are like that kind of wife. They have not been faithful to me.”
English Standard Version - When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”
New Living Translation - When the Lord first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, “Go and marry a prostitute, so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution. This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the Lord and worshiping other gods.”
The Message - The first time God spoke to Hosea he said: “Find a whore and marry her. Make this whore the mother of your children. And here’s why: This whole country has become a whorehouse, unfaithful to me, God.”
Christian Standard Bible - When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity, and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the Lord.
New American Standard Bible - When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife inclined to infidelity, and children of infidelity; for the land commits flagrant infidelity, abandoning the Lord.”
New King James Version - When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry And children of harlotry, For the land has committed great harlotry By departing from the Lord.”
American Standard Version - When Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah.
King James Version - The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.
New English Translation - When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, he said to him, “Go marry a prostitute who will bear illegitimate children conceived through prostitution, because the nation continually commits spiritual prostitution by turning away from the Lord.”
World English Bible - When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”
新標點和合本 - 耶和華初次與何西阿說話，對他說：「你去娶淫婦為妻，也收那從淫亂所生的兒女；因為這地大行淫亂，離棄耶和華。」
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 耶和華初次向何西阿說話。耶和華對他說：「你去娶一個淫蕩的女子為妻，收那從淫亂所生的兒女；因為這地行大淫亂，離棄耶和華。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 耶和華初次向何西阿說話。耶和華對他說：「你去娶一個淫蕩的女子為妻，收那從淫亂所生的兒女；因為這地行大淫亂，離棄耶和華。」
當代譯本 - 耶和華首次傳話給何西阿時，對他說：「你去娶一個妓女為妻，和她生養兒女，因為這片土地上的人極其淫亂，背棄了耶和華。」
聖經新譯本 - 耶和華初次藉著何西阿說話。耶和華對何西阿說：“你去娶一個像娼妓一樣的女人，生養像娼妓一樣的兒女，因為這地盛行淫亂，離開了耶和華。”
呂振中譯本 - 永恆主開始同何西阿講話，對何西阿說：『你去，娶淫婦為妻，收取淫亂生的兒女；因為這地大行淫亂、離棄了永恆主。』
現代標點和合本 - 耶和華初次與何西阿說話，對他說：「你去娶淫婦為妻，也收那從淫亂所生的兒女，因為這地大行淫亂，離棄耶和華。」
文理和合譯本 - 耶和華初諭何西阿時、謂之曰、爾往娶淫婦、得其由淫而生之子、蓋斯土行淫特甚、離棄耶和華、
文理委辦譯本 - 耶和華首告何西曰、斯土之民、狥其私欲、違逆乎我、爾娶淫婦而生子、人必被其子以惡名、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主初與何西阿言諭之曰、爾往娶淫婦為妻、生子、人疑為由淫所生、人疑為由淫所生或作被人藐視因淫婦所生以指斯地之民、如淫婦棄主、不復從之、如淫婦棄主不復從之或作棄主而從邪淫
Nueva Versión Internacional - La primera vez que el Señor habló por medio de Oseas, le dijo: «Ve y toma por esposa una prostituta, y ten con ella hijos de prostitución, porque el país se ha prostituido por completo. ¡Se ha apartado del Señor!»
현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 호세아에게 처음 말씀하셨을 때 이렇게 말씀하셨다. “너는 가서 창녀와 결혼하여 음란한 자녀를 낳아라. 이 백성이 나를 떠나 더러운 창녀짓을 하고 있다.”
Новый Русский Перевод - Когда Господь начал говорить через Осию, Он сказал ему: – Пойди, возьми себе в жены блудницу и с ней детей ее разврата , потому что эта земля погрязла в ужасном распутстве, отвернувшись от Господа.
Восточный перевод - Когда Вечный начал говорить через Осию, Он сказал ему: – Пойди и возьми себе в жёны блудницу и с ней детей её разврата , потому что эта земля погрязла в ужасном распутстве, отвернувшись от Вечного.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Когда Вечный начал говорить через Осию, Он сказал ему: – Пойди и возьми себе в жёны блудницу и с ней детей её разврата , потому что эта земля погрязла в ужасном распутстве, отвернувшись от Вечного.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Когда Вечный начал говорить через Осию, Он сказал ему: – Пойди и возьми себе в жёны блудницу и с ней детей её разврата , потому что эта земля погрязла в ужасном распутстве, отвернувшись от Вечного.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Première partie des paroles que l’Eternel prononça par Osée : L’Eternel dit à Osée : Va, prends une femme qui se livre à la prostitution, et des enfants nés de la prostitution, car le pays se vautre dans la prostitution en se détournant de l’Eternel .
リビングバイブル - 最初に告げられたのはこうです。「遊女と結婚せよ。その女から生まれる子どものうちには、ほかの男が父親である子もいる。そのことは、わたしの民がわたしに対して不誠実であることを表している。彼らは他の神々を礼拝し、わたしを無視して、堂々と姦淫をしている。」
Nova Versão Internacional - Quando o Senhor começou a falar por meio de Oseias, disse-lhe: “Vá, tome uma mulher adúltera e filhos da infidelidade, porque a nação é culpada do mais vergonhoso adultério por afastar-se do Senhor”.
Hoffnung für alle - Als der Herr zum ersten Mal zu Hosea sprach, befahl er ihm: »Such dir eine Hure und nimm sie zur Frau! Du sollst Kinder haben, die von einer Hure geboren wurden. Denn auch mein Volk ist wie eine Hure: Es ist mir untreu und läuft fremden Göttern nach.«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Khi Chúa Hằng Hữu bắt đầu truyền sứ điệp về Ít-ra-ên qua Ô-sê, Ngài phán bảo ông: “Hãy đi và cưới một gái mãi dâm, rồi con cái của nàng sẽ là con sinh trong sự mãi dâm. Đây sẽ là minh họa về Ít-ra-ên đã hành động như gái mãi dâm, đã lìa bỏ Chúa Hằng Hữu mà thờ phụng các thần khác.”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เมื่อองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าเริ่มตรัสผ่านโฮเชยานั้น องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าตรัสกับเขาว่า “จงไปรับหญิงเจ้าชู้มาเป็นภรรยา และรับลูกๆ ที่เกิดจากความไม่ซื่อสัตย์ของนางมาด้วย เพราะว่าดินแดนนี้มีความผิดฐานล่วงประเวณีอย่างร้ายแรงที่สุดโดยการละทิ้งองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เมื่อพระผู้เป็นเจ้าเริ่มกล่าวผ่านโฮเชยา พระผู้เป็นเจ้ากล่าวกับโฮเชยาดังนี้ “จงไปรับหญิงผู้ผิดประเวณีมาเป็นภรรยาของเจ้า และมีลูกๆ ที่เกิดจากการผิดประเวณี เพราะแผ่นดินประพฤติผิดประเวณีอย่างร้ายแรงเมื่อได้ทอดทิ้งพระผู้เป็นเจ้า”

Jeremiah 2:13 - “For My people have committed two evils: They have abandoned (rejected) Me, The fountain of living water, And they have carved out their own cisterns, Broken cisterns That cannot hold water.
Jeremiah 3:1 - That is to say, “If a man divorces his wife And she goes [away] from him And becomes another man’s [wife], Will he return to her again? [Of course not!] Will not that land [where such a thing happened] be completely desecrated? But you [rebelled against Me and you] are a prostitute with many lovers; Yet you turn to Me.” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:2 - “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see; Where have you not been violated? You sat by the road waiting [eagerly] for them [those man-made gods] Like an Arab [tribesman who waits to attack] in the desert, And you have desecrated the land With your [vile] prostitution and your wickedness (disobedience to God).
Jeremiah 3:3 - Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. Yet you have the forehead (appearance) of a prostitute; You refuse to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 3:4 - Will you not just now call out to Me, ‘My Father, you were the guide and companion of my youth?
2 Chronicles 21:13 - but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful [to God] as the house of Ahab was unfaithful, and you have also murdered your brothers, your father’s house (your own family), who were better than you,
Psalms 73:27 - For behold, those who are far from You will perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful and have abandoned You.
Isaiah 20:2 - at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, untie the sackcloth from your hips and take your sandals off your feet.” And he did so, walking around stripped [to his loincloth] and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:3 - And the Lord said, “Even as My servant Isaiah has walked stripped and barefoot for three years as a sign and forewarning concerning Egypt and Cush (Ethiopia),
Ezekiel 4:1 - “Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you and inscribe on it [a diagram of] the city of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 4:2 - Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise a ramp against it; set up [enemy] camps and place battering rams all around it.
Ezekiel 4:3 - Further, take an iron plate and place it as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:4 - “Then lie down on your left side (toward the north) to bear [symbolically] the wickedness and punishment of the house of Israel. You shall bear their wickedness and punishment for the number of days that you lie on your side.
Ezekiel 4:5 - For I have assigned you the years of their wickedness and punishment, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days [representing three hundred and ninety years]; in this way you shall bear [symbolically] the wickedness and punishment of the house of Israel.
Hosea 5:3 - I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you have played the prostitute and have worshiped idols; Israel has defiled itself.
Ezekiel 16:1 - Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 16:2 - “Son of man, make Jerusalem understand [the heinous and vile nature of] her repulsive (idolatrous) acts
Ezekiel 16:3 - and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem (all of Israel), “Your [spiritual] origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your [spiritual] father was an Amorite and your [spiritual] mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:4 - And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing, nor were you rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.
Ezekiel 16:5 - No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out in the open field, for you were loathed on the day that you were born.
Ezekiel 16:6 - “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your [newborn] blood, I said to you while you were there in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were there in your blood, ‘Live!’
Ezekiel 16:7 - I made you (Israel) multiply like plants [which grow] in the field, and you grew up and became tall and you reached the age for [wearing] fine jewelry; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:8 - “Then I passed by you [again] and looked on you; behold, you were maturing and at the time for love, and I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore [an oath] to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord God, “and you became Mine.”
Ezekiel 16:9 - “Then I washed you with water; yes, I [thoroughly] washed away from you the [clinging] blood and anointed you with oil.
Ezekiel 16:10 - I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
Ezekiel 16:11 - I adorned you with ornaments and I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.
Ezekiel 16:12 - I also put a ring in your nostril and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
Ezekiel 16:13 - Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was [made] of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil; so you were extremely beautiful and you advanced and prospered into royalty.
Ezekiel 16:14 - Then your fame went out among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My majesty and splendor which I bestowed on you,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:15 - “But you trusted in and relied on your beauty and prostituted yourself [in idolatry and its debauched rituals] because of your fame, and you poured out your immoralities on every [willing] passer-by and your beauty was his [as you worshiped the idols of the Gentile nations].
Ezekiel 16:16 - You took some of your clothes and made for yourself [decorated] high places and shrines of various colors and prostituted yourself on them—things which should never have come about and taken place.
Ezekiel 16:17 - You also took your beautiful jewels and beautiful vessels made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men so that you could prostitute yourself with them;
Ezekiel 16:18 - and you took your embroidered clothing and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.
Ezekiel 16:19 - Also My bread which I gave you, [made from the] fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, you even offered it before idols [no better than cow dung] as a sweet and soothing aroma; so it happened,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:20 - “Moreover, you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne to Me, and you destroyed them as sacrifices [to your man-made gods]. Were your gross immoralities so small a matter?
Ezekiel 16:21 - You slaughtered My children and offered them up to [worthless] idols, forcing them to pass through the [hideousness of the] fire.
Ezekiel 16:22 - And in all your repulsive acts and prostitutions (idolatrous immoralities) you did not [pause to] remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, squirming in your [newborn] blood.
Ezekiel 16:23 - “Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God),
Ezekiel 16:24 - that you built yourself an altar for prostitution and made yourself a high place [for ritual prostitution] in every square [of Jerusalem].
Ezekiel 16:25 - At the beginning of every street you built your high place and made your beauty repulsive; and you offered your body to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene immorality.
Ezekiel 16:26 - You also prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors [by embracing their pagan rituals], and you multiplied your obscene immorality to provoke Me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:27 - Behold now [listen very carefully], I have stretched out My hand against you, reduced your portion, and handed you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your infamous behavior.
Ezekiel 16:28 - You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you prostituted yourself with them and still were not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29 - Moreover, you increased your obscene immorality with the land of tradesmen, Chaldea (Babylonia), and yet even with this you were not satisfied.” ’ ”
Ezekiel 16:30 - “How weakened by longing and lust is your heart (mind),” says the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold and brazen prostitute.
Ezekiel 16:31 - When you built your shrine altar for prostitution at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, you were not like a prostitute because you refused payment.
Ezekiel 16:32 - You adulterous wife, who welcomes and receives strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:33 - Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, bribing the pagan nations to come to you [as allies] from every direction for your obscene immoralities.
Ezekiel 16:34 - And you are different from other [unfaithful] women in your promiscuity, in that no one follows you to lure you into prostitution, and because you give money and no money is given you; in this way you are different.”
Ezekiel 16:35 - Therefore, O prostitute [Israel], hear the word of the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:36 - Thus says the Lord God, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your obscene immoralities with your lovers (pagan allies), and with all your [repulsive] idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to them,
Ezekiel 16:37 - therefore, listen, I will gather all your lovers (pagan allies) with whom you took pleasure, and all those whom you loved with all those whom you hated; I will even gather them against you from every direction and will expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness [making you, Israel, an object of loathing and of mockery, a spectacle among the nations].
Ezekiel 16:38 - And I [the Lord God] will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezekiel 16:39 - I will also hand you over to your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and they will leave you naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:40 - They will also incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and slaughter you with their swords.
Ezekiel 16:41 - They will burn down your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women (Gentile nations). Then I will make you cease your prostitution, and you will no longer hire your lovers.
Ezekiel 16:42 - So I will calm My wrath toward you and My jealousy [resulting from being denied what is rightfully and uniquely mine] will turn away from you; I will be pacified and no longer angry.
Ezekiel 16:43 - Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me with all these things, therefore, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head,” says the Lord God, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other repulsive acts.
Ezekiel 16:44 - “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
Ezekiel 16:45 - You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. You are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your [spiritual] mother was a Hittite and your [spiritual] father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46 - Now your older sister is Samaria, she with her daughters (outlying cities) who live north of you; and your younger sister is Sodom, she with her daughters who live south of you.
Ezekiel 16:47 - Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or behaved in accordance with their pagan practices; but, as if that were too little, you [soon] acted more corruptly in all your ways than they.
Ezekiel 16:48 - As I live,” says the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Ezekiel 16:49 - Behold, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters (outlying cities) had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:50 - They were haughty and committed repulsive acts before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.
Ezekiel 16:51 - Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, but you have greatly increased your repulsive acts more than they. So you have made your [wicked] sisters [Samaria and Sodom] appear righteous and justified by [comparison to] all the disgusting things which you have done.
Ezekiel 16:52 - Also bear your disgrace [as punishment], having made judgment favorable for your sisters, for [you virtually absolved them] because of your sins in which you behaved more repulsively than they; they are more in the right than you. Yes, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you made your [pagan] sisters seem righteous.
Ezekiel 16:53 - “Nevertheless, I will restore them [again] from their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters (outlying cities), the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them [I will restore you from] your own captivity [in the day of the Lord God],
Ezekiel 16:54 - so that you [Judah] will bear your humiliation and disgrace, and be [thoroughly] ashamed for all [the wickedness] that you have done to console and comfort them.
Ezekiel 16:55 - Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state; and you and your daughters will return to your former state.
Ezekiel 16:56 - For [the name of] your sister Sodom was not mentioned by you [except as a byword] in the day of your pride [when David ruled],
Ezekiel 16:57 - before your [own] wickedness was uncovered. Now you have become an object of reproach and a byword for the daughters of Aram and of Edom and all who are around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you.
Ezekiel 16:58 - You have borne [the penalty of] your lewdness and your repulsive acts,” says the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:59 - Yes, thus says the Lord God, “I will also deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
Ezekiel 16:60 - “Nevertheless, I will remember [with compassion] My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant [with Me].
Ezekiel 16:62 - And I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord,
Ezekiel 16:63 - so that you may remember [in detail] and be ashamed and never open your mouth again because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done,” says the Lord God.
Mark 1:1 - The beginning of the [facts regarding the] good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Jeremiah 13:1 - Thus the Lord said to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it on your loins, but do not put it in water.”
Jeremiah 13:2 - So I bought the waistband according to the word of the Lord and put it on my loins.
Jeremiah 13:3 - Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,
Jeremiah 13:4 - “Get up and take the waistband that you have bought, which is [wrapped] around your loins, and go to the [river] Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.”
Jeremiah 13:5 - So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded me.
Jeremiah 13:6 - And after many days the Lord said to me, “Get up, go to the Euphrates and get the waistband which I commanded you to hide there.”
Jeremiah 13:7 - Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the waistband was decayed and ruined; it was completely worthless.
Jeremiah 13:8 - Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 13:9 - “Thus says the Lord, ‘In this same way I shall destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:10 - These wicked and malevolent people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubborn way of their heart and have followed other gods [which are nothing—just man-made carvings] to serve them and to worship them, let them be just like this waistband which is completely worthless.
Jeremiah 13:11 - For as the waistband clings to the body of a man, so I caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me,’ says the Lord, ‘that they might be for Me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory; but they did not listen and obey.’
Ezekiel 6:9 - Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be exiled, how I have been broken by their lewdness and their adulterous hearts which have turned away from Me, and by their eyes which lust after their idols; and they will loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed, for all their repulsive acts.
Revelation 17:5 - And on her forehead a name was written, a mystery: “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES (false religions, heresies) AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
2 Peter 2:14 - They have eyes full of adultery, constantly looking for sin, enticing and luring away unstable souls. Having hearts trained in greed, [they are] children of a curse.
Ezekiel 23:1 - The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
Ezekiel 23:2 - “Son of man, there were two women (Israel and Judah), the daughters of one mother (the united kingdom);
Ezekiel 23:3 - and they prostituted themselves in Egypt. From their youth they were grossly immoral; in that place their breasts were embraced and their virgin bosom was grasped.
Ezekiel 23:4 - Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister, and they became Mine and they gave birth to sons and daughters. And as for [the identity of] their names, Oholah is Samaria (capital city of Israel) and Oholibah is Jerusalem (capital city of Judah).
Ezekiel 23:5 - “Oholah played the prostitute while she was Mine; and she adored and lusted after her lovers (allies), the Assyrians, her neighbors,
Ezekiel 23:6 - who were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding on horses.
Ezekiel 23:7 - She bestowed [freely] her immoralities on them, the choicest men of Assyria, all of them; and with all whom she adored and lusted after, she defiled herself with their idols.
Ezekiel 23:8 - She did not give up the acts of prostitution that originated during her time in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their depravity on her.
Ezekiel 23:9 - Therefore, I placed her in the hand of her lovers (allies), into the hand of the Assyrians whom she adored.
Ezekiel 23:10 - They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters and they killed her with the sword. So she became notorious among women, and they executed judgments on her.
Ezekiel 23:11 - “Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her acts of prostitution were more [wanton] than the immoralities of her sister.
Ezekiel 23:12 - She lusted after the Assyrians—governors and officials, her neighbors, magnificently clothed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
Ezekiel 23:13 - I saw that she had defiled herself; they both behaved the same way.
Ezekiel 23:14 - But Oholibah carried her depravity further, for she saw men pictured on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans (Babylonians) sketched and portrayed in vermilion (bright red pigment),
Ezekiel 23:15 - girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonian men whose native land was Chaldea.
Ezekiel 23:16 - When she saw [the sketches of] them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
Ezekiel 23:17 - The Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and they defiled her with their evil desire; and when she had been defiled by them, she (Jerusalem) broke the relationship and pushed them away from her in disgust.
Ezekiel 23:18 - So she flaunted her acts of prostitution and exposed her nakedness; then I became disgusted with her [and turned away], as I had become disgusted with her sister [and turned away].
Ezekiel 23:19 - Yet she multiplied her depravities, remembering the days of her youth, when she was actively immoral in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:20 - For she lusted after her lovers [there], whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Ezekiel 23:21 - Thus you longed for the lewdness and vulgarity of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom on account of the breasts of your youth.
Ezekiel 23:22 - “Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I will stir up your lovers (allies) against you, from whom you turned away in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
Ezekiel 23:23 - the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, princes, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
Ezekiel 23:24 - They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of people (infantry) who will array themselves against you on every side with large shield and small, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment and the punishment to them, and they will judge and punish you in accordance with their [pagan] customs.
Ezekiel 23:25 - I will set My jealous indignation against you [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely mine], and they will deal with you in fury. They will remove your nose and your ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the survivors will be devoured by the fire.
Ezekiel 23:26 - They will also strip you (Judah) of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.
Ezekiel 23:27 - Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your prostitution brought from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt [with longing] anymore.’
Ezekiel 23:28 - For thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I will place you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned away in disgust.
Ezekiel 23:29 - They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your depravity will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your obscene practices.
Ezekiel 23:30 - These things will be done to you because you have prostituted yourself with the [Gentile] nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols.
Ezekiel 23:31 - You have walked in the way of your sister (Samaria); therefore I will give her cup [of judgment] into your hand.’
Ezekiel 23:32 - Thus says the Lord God, ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, Which is deep and wide [and filled to the brim]. You shall be laughed at and derided; It contains much [too much to endure].
Ezekiel 23:33 - You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, With the cup of horror and desolation, With the cup of your sister Samaria.
Ezekiel 23:34 - You will drink it and drain it, Then you will gnaw its fragments And tear your breasts; for I have spoken,’ says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 23:35 - Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore bear now [the consequences of] your lewdness and prostitution.’ ”
Ezekiel 23:36 - Moreover, the Lord said to me, “Son of man, will you judge Oholah (Samaria, capital of Israel) and Oholibah (Jerusalem, capital of Judah)? Then inform them of their atrocities [the detestable and vile things they do].
Ezekiel 23:37 - For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery [against Me] with their idols and have even forced their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire as [an offering of] food to them (idols).
Ezekiel 23:38 - Moreover, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day [of their idolatries] and have profaned My Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 23:39 - For when they had killed their children [as offerings] to their idols, then they came the same day to My sanctuary to profane it [by daring to offer a sacrifice there also]. And behold, this they did within My house.
Ezekiel 23:40 - “Furthermore, you have even sent a messenger for men to come from far away; and behold, they came—those for whom you bathed, painted your eyes, and decorated yourself with ornaments;
Ezekiel 23:41 - and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.
Ezekiel 23:42 - The sound of a carefree crowd was with her; and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of a common sort, who put bracelets on the hands of the women (both sisters) and beautiful crowns on their heads.
Ezekiel 23:43 - “Then I said concerning the one (Oholah) worn out by adulteries, ‘Will they now commit adultery with her when she is like this?’
Ezekiel 23:44 - But they committed adultery with her as they would with a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah (Israel) and to Oholibah (Judah), the lewd women.
Ezekiel 23:45 - And they, righteous men, will judge and condemn them with the judgment (punishment) of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
Ezekiel 23:46 - “For thus says the Lord God, ‘Bring up a horde (mob) against them and hand them over to terror and plunder.
Ezekiel 23:47 - And the horde will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and their daughters and burn down their houses with fire.
Ezekiel 23:48 - Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land, that all women may be admonished and taught not to commit immoral acts as you have done.
Ezekiel 23:49 - Thus your lewdness will be repaid to you, and you will suffer the penalty for your [sinful] idolatry; and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord God.’ ”
Exodus 34:15 - otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the prostitute with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat his sacrifice (meal),
Exodus 34:16 - and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters would play the prostitute with their gods and cause your sons also to play the prostitute (commit apostasy) with their gods [that is, abandon the true God for man-made idols].
Revelation 17:1 - Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the judgment and doom of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters [influencing nations],
Revelation 17:2 - she with whom the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality, and the inhabitants of the earth have become intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”
Psalms 106:39 - In this way they became unclean in their practices; They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”].
Jeremiah 3:9 - Because of the thoughtlessness of Israel’s prostitution [her immorality mattered little to her], she desecrated the land and committed adultery with [idols of] stones and trees.
Hosea 2:4 - Also, I will have no mercy on her children, Because they are the children of prostitution.
Hosea 2:5 - For their mother has played the prostitute; She who conceived them has acted shamefully, For she said, ‘I will pursue my lovers Who give me my food and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my [refreshing] drinks.’
Deuteronomy 31:16 - The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down [in death] with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the prostitute (commit apostasy) with the foreign gods [of the people] of the land, where they go to be among them. They will abandon (turn away from) Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.
Hosea 3:1 - Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman ( Gomer) who is beloved by her husband and yet is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love the raisin cakes [used in the feasts in pagan worship].”