Hosea 1:2 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...

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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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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 forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 3:1 - “If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:2 - Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom.
Jeremiah 3:3 - Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 3:4 - Have you not just now called to me, ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—
2 Chronicles 21:13 - but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father’s house, who were better than you,
Psalms 73:27 - For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
Isaiah 20:2 - at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:3 - Then the Lord said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,
Ezekiel 4:1 - “And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 4:2 - And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.
Ezekiel 4:3 - And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:4 - “Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment.
Ezekiel 4:5 - For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the 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 whore; Israel is defiled.
Ezekiel 16:1 - Again the word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 16:2 - “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
Ezekiel 16:3 - and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:4 - And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
Ezekiel 16:5 - No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.
Ezekiel 16:6 - “And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’
Ezekiel 16:7 - I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:8 - “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.
Ezekiel 16:9 - Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.
Ezekiel 16:10 - I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
Ezekiel 16:11 - And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
Ezekiel 16:12 - And I put a ring on your nose 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 clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.
Ezekiel 16:14 - And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:15 - “But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.
Ezekiel 16:16 - You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.
Ezekiel 16:17 - You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.
Ezekiel 16:18 - And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
Ezekiel 16:19 - Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:20 - And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter
Ezekiel 16:21 - that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
Ezekiel 16:22 - And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
Ezekiel 16:23 - “And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God),
Ezekiel 16:24 - you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.
Ezekiel 16:25 - At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
Ezekiel 16:26 - You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:27 - Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
Ezekiel 16:28 - You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29 - You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:30 - “How sick is your heart, declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,
Ezekiel 16:31 - building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
Ezekiel 16:32 - Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:33 - Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.
Ezekiel 16:34 - So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.
Ezekiel 16:35 - “Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord:
Ezekiel 16:36 - Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
Ezekiel 16:37 - therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
Ezekiel 16:38 - And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezekiel 16:39 - And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:40 - They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
Ezekiel 16:41 - And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.
Ezekiel 16:42 - So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.
Ezekiel 16:43 - Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
Ezekiel 16:44 - “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
Ezekiel 16:45 - You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46 - And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
Ezekiel 16:47 - Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
Ezekiel 16:48 - As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Ezekiel 16:49 - Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:50 - They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.
Ezekiel 16:51 - Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.
Ezekiel 16:52 - Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
Ezekiel 16:53 - “I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst,
Ezekiel 16:54 - that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them.
Ezekiel 16:55 - As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
Ezekiel 16:56 - Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride,
Ezekiel 16:57 - before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.
Ezekiel 16:58 - You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:59 - “For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,
Ezekiel 16:60 - yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you.
Ezekiel 16:62 - I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord,
Ezekiel 16:63 - that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”
Mark 1:1 - The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Jeremiah 13:1 - Thus says the Lord to me, “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, and do not dip it in water.”
Jeremiah 13:2 - So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist.
Jeremiah 13:3 - And the word of the Lord came to me a second time,
Jeremiah 13:4 - “Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”
Jeremiah 13:5 - So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
Jeremiah 13:6 - And after many days the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”
Jeremiah 13:7 - Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.
Jeremiah 13:8 - Then the word of the Lord came to me:
Jeremiah 13:9 - “Thus says the Lord: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:10 - This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.
Jeremiah 13:11 - For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the Lord, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.
Ezekiel 6:9 - then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Revelation 17:5 - And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”
2 Peter 2:14 - They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
Ezekiel 23:1 - The word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 23:2 - “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
Ezekiel 23:3 - They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.
Ezekiel 23:4 - Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 23:5 - “Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors
Ezekiel 23:6 - clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
Ezekiel 23:7 - She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.
Ezekiel 23:8 - She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.
Ezekiel 23:9 - Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.
Ezekiel 23:10 - These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.
Ezekiel 23:11 - “Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.
Ezekiel 23:12 - She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
Ezekiel 23:13 - And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.
Ezekiel 23:14 - But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
Ezekiel 23:15 - wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea.
Ezekiel 23:16 - When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
Ezekiel 23:17 - And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust.
Ezekiel 23:18 - When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister.
Ezekiel 23:19 - Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt
Ezekiel 23:20 - and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.
Ezekiel 23:21 - Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts.”
Ezekiel 23:22 - Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned 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 commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
Ezekiel 23:24 - And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Ezekiel 23:25 - And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.
Ezekiel 23:26 - They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.
Ezekiel 23:27 - Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.
Ezekiel 23:28 - “For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust,
Ezekiel 23:29 - and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring
Ezekiel 23:30 - have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Ezekiel 23:31 - You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.
Ezekiel 23:32 - Thus says the Lord God: “You shall drink your sister’s cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;
Ezekiel 23:33 - you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria;
Ezekiel 23:34 - you shall drink it and drain it out, and gnaw its shards, and tear your breasts; for I have spoken, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 23:35 - Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.”
Ezekiel 23:36 - The Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.
Ezekiel 23:37 - For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
Ezekiel 23:38 - Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 23:39 - For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.
Ezekiel 23:40 - They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.
Ezekiel 23:41 - You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
Ezekiel 23:42 - The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
Ezekiel 23:43 - “Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!’
Ezekiel 23:44 - For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women!
Ezekiel 23:45 - But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence 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 vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.
Ezekiel 23:47 - And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
Ezekiel 23:48 - Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
Ezekiel 23:49 - And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.”
Exodus 34:15 - lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice,
Exodus 34:16 - and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
Revelation 17:1 - Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,
Revelation 17:2 - with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”
Psalms 106:39 - Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
Jeremiah 3:9 - Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
Hosea 2:4 - Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.
Hosea 2:5 - For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
Deuteronomy 31:16 - And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
Hosea 3:1 - And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”

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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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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 forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 3:1 - “If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:2 - Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom.
Jeremiah 3:3 - Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 3:4 - Have you not just now called to me, ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—
2 Chronicles 21:13 - but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father’s house, who were better than you,
Psalms 73:27 - For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
Isaiah 20:2 - at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:3 - Then the Lord said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,
Ezekiel 4:1 - “And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 4:2 - And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.
Ezekiel 4:3 - And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:4 - “Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment.
Ezekiel 4:5 - For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the 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 whore; Israel is defiled.
Ezekiel 16:1 - Again the word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 16:2 - “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
Ezekiel 16:3 - and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:4 - And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
Ezekiel 16:5 - No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.
Ezekiel 16:6 - “And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’
Ezekiel 16:7 - I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:8 - “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.
Ezekiel 16:9 - Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.
Ezekiel 16:10 - I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
Ezekiel 16:11 - And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
Ezekiel 16:12 - And I put a ring on your nose 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 clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.
Ezekiel 16:14 - And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:15 - “But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.
Ezekiel 16:16 - You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.
Ezekiel 16:17 - You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.
Ezekiel 16:18 - And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
Ezekiel 16:19 - Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:20 - And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter
Ezekiel 16:21 - that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
Ezekiel 16:22 - And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
Ezekiel 16:23 - “And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God),
Ezekiel 16:24 - you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.
Ezekiel 16:25 - At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
Ezekiel 16:26 - You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:27 - Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
Ezekiel 16:28 - You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29 - You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:30 - “How sick is your heart, declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,
Ezekiel 16:31 - building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
Ezekiel 16:32 - Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:33 - Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.
Ezekiel 16:34 - So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.
Ezekiel 16:35 - “Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord:
Ezekiel 16:36 - Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
Ezekiel 16:37 - therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
Ezekiel 16:38 - And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezekiel 16:39 - And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:40 - They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
Ezekiel 16:41 - And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.
Ezekiel 16:42 - So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.
Ezekiel 16:43 - Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
Ezekiel 16:44 - “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
Ezekiel 16:45 - You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46 - And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
Ezekiel 16:47 - Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
Ezekiel 16:48 - As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Ezekiel 16:49 - Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:50 - They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.
Ezekiel 16:51 - Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.
Ezekiel 16:52 - Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
Ezekiel 16:53 - “I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst,
Ezekiel 16:54 - that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them.
Ezekiel 16:55 - As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
Ezekiel 16:56 - Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride,
Ezekiel 16:57 - before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.
Ezekiel 16:58 - You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:59 - “For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,
Ezekiel 16:60 - yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you.
Ezekiel 16:62 - I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord,
Ezekiel 16:63 - that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”
Mark 1:1 - The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Jeremiah 13:1 - Thus says the Lord to me, “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, and do not dip it in water.”
Jeremiah 13:2 - So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist.
Jeremiah 13:3 - And the word of the Lord came to me a second time,
Jeremiah 13:4 - “Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”
Jeremiah 13:5 - So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
Jeremiah 13:6 - And after many days the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”
Jeremiah 13:7 - Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.
Jeremiah 13:8 - Then the word of the Lord came to me:
Jeremiah 13:9 - “Thus says the Lord: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:10 - This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.
Jeremiah 13:11 - For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the Lord, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.
Ezekiel 6:9 - then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Revelation 17:5 - And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”
2 Peter 2:14 - They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
Ezekiel 23:1 - The word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 23:2 - “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
Ezekiel 23:3 - They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.
Ezekiel 23:4 - Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 23:5 - “Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors
Ezekiel 23:6 - clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
Ezekiel 23:7 - She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.
Ezekiel 23:8 - She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.
Ezekiel 23:9 - Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.
Ezekiel 23:10 - These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.
Ezekiel 23:11 - “Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.
Ezekiel 23:12 - She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
Ezekiel 23:13 - And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.
Ezekiel 23:14 - But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
Ezekiel 23:15 - wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea.
Ezekiel 23:16 - When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
Ezekiel 23:17 - And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust.
Ezekiel 23:18 - When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister.
Ezekiel 23:19 - Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt
Ezekiel 23:20 - and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.
Ezekiel 23:21 - Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts.”
Ezekiel 23:22 - Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned 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 commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
Ezekiel 23:24 - And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Ezekiel 23:25 - And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.
Ezekiel 23:26 - They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.
Ezekiel 23:27 - Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.
Ezekiel 23:28 - “For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust,
Ezekiel 23:29 - and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring
Ezekiel 23:30 - have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Ezekiel 23:31 - You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.
Ezekiel 23:32 - Thus says the Lord God: “You shall drink your sister’s cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;
Ezekiel 23:33 - you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria;
Ezekiel 23:34 - you shall drink it and drain it out, and gnaw its shards, and tear your breasts; for I have spoken, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 23:35 - Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.”
Ezekiel 23:36 - The Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.
Ezekiel 23:37 - For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
Ezekiel 23:38 - Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 23:39 - For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.
Ezekiel 23:40 - They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.
Ezekiel 23:41 - You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
Ezekiel 23:42 - The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
Ezekiel 23:43 - “Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!’
Ezekiel 23:44 - For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women!
Ezekiel 23:45 - But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence 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 vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.
Ezekiel 23:47 - And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
Ezekiel 23:48 - Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
Ezekiel 23:49 - And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.”
Exodus 34:15 - lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice,
Exodus 34:16 - and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
Revelation 17:1 - Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,
Revelation 17:2 - with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”
Psalms 106:39 - Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
Jeremiah 3:9 - Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
Hosea 2:4 - Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.
Hosea 2:5 - For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
Deuteronomy 31:16 - And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
Hosea 3:1 - And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”