Hosea 1:2 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 pro...

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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.”
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.”
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”

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Jeremiah 2:13 - “For my people have done two evil things: They have abandoned me— the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!
Jeremiah 3:1 - “If a man divorces a woman and she goes and marries someone else, he will not take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, so why are you trying to come back to me?” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:2 - “Look at the shrines on every hilltop. Is there any place you have not been defiled by your adultery with other gods? You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a customer. You sit alone like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and your wickedness.
Jeremiah 3:3 - That’s why even the spring rains have failed. For you are a brazen prostitute and completely shameless.
Jeremiah 3:4 - Yet you say to me, ‘Father, you have been my guide since my youth.
2 Chronicles 21:13 - Instead, you have been as evil as the kings of Israel. You have led the people of Jerusalem and Judah to worship idols, just as King Ahab did in Israel. And you have even killed your own brothers, men who were better than you.
Psalms 73:27 - Those who desert him will perish, for you destroy those who abandon you.
Isaiah 20:2 - the Lord told Isaiah son of Amoz, “Take off the burlap you have been wearing, and remove your sandals.” Isaiah did as he was told and walked around naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:3 - Then the Lord said, “My servant Isaiah has been walking around naked and barefoot for the last three years. This is a sign—a symbol of the terrible troubles I will bring upon Egypt and Ethiopia.
Ezekiel 4:1 - “And now, son of man, take a large clay brick and set it down in front of you. Then draw a map of the city of Jerusalem on it.
Ezekiel 4:2 - Show the city under siege. Build a wall around it so no one can escape. Set up the enemy camp, and surround the city with siege ramps and battering rams.
Ezekiel 4:3 - Then take an iron griddle and place it between you and the city. Turn toward the city and demonstrate how harsh the siege will be against Jerusalem. This will be a warning to the people of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:4 - “Now lie on your left side and place the sins of Israel on yourself. You are to bear their sins for the number of days you lie there on your side.
Ezekiel 4:5 - I am requiring you to bear Israel’s sins for 390 days—one day for each year of their sin.
Hosea 5:3 - I know what you are like, O Ephraim. You cannot hide yourself from me, O Israel. You have left me as a prostitute leaves her husband; you are utterly defiled.
Ezekiel 16:1 - Then another message came to me from the Lord:
Ezekiel 16:2 - “Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable sins.
Ezekiel 16:3 - Give her this message from the Sovereign Lord: You are nothing but a Canaanite! Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:4 - On the day you were born, no one cared about you. Your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were never washed, rubbed with salt, and wrapped in cloth.
Ezekiel 16:5 - No one had the slightest interest in you; no one pitied you or cared for you. On the day you were born, you were unwanted, dumped in a field and left to die.
Ezekiel 16:6 - “But I came by and saw you there, helplessly kicking about in your own blood. As you lay there, I said, ‘Live!’
Ezekiel 16:7 - And I helped you to thrive like a plant in the field. You grew up and became a beautiful jewel. Your breasts became full, and your body hair grew, but you were still naked.
Ezekiel 16:8 - And when I passed by again, I saw that you were old enough for love. So I wrapped my cloak around you to cover your nakedness and declared my marriage vows. I made a covenant with you, says the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.
Ezekiel 16:9 - “Then I bathed you and washed off your blood, and I rubbed fragrant oils into your skin.
Ezekiel 16:10 - I gave you expensive clothing of fine linen and silk, beautifully embroidered, and sandals made of fine goatskin leather.
Ezekiel 16:11 - I gave you lovely jewelry, bracelets, beautiful necklaces,
Ezekiel 16:12 - a ring for your nose, earrings for your ears, and a lovely crown for your head.
Ezekiel 16:13 - And so you were adorned with gold and silver. Your clothes were made of fine linen and costly fabric and were beautifully embroidered. You ate the finest foods—choice flour, honey, and olive oil—and became more beautiful than ever. You looked like a queen, and so you were!
Ezekiel 16:14 - Your fame soon spread throughout the world because of your beauty. I dressed you in my splendor and perfected your beauty, says the Sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 16:15 - “But you thought your fame and beauty were your own. So you gave yourself as a prostitute to every man who came along. Your beauty was theirs for the asking.
Ezekiel 16:16 - You used the lovely things I gave you to make shrines for idols, where you played the prostitute. Unbelievable! How could such a thing ever happen?
Ezekiel 16:17 - You took the very jewels and gold and silver ornaments I had given you and made statues of men and worshiped them. This is adultery against me!
Ezekiel 16:18 - You used the beautifully embroidered clothes I gave you to dress your idols. Then you used my special oil and my incense to worship them.
Ezekiel 16:19 - Imagine it! You set before them as a sacrifice the choice flour, olive oil, and honey I had given you, says the Sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 16:20 - “Then you took your sons and daughters—the children you had borne to me—and sacrificed them to your gods. Was your prostitution not enough?
Ezekiel 16:21 - Must you also slaughter my children by sacrificing them to idols?
Ezekiel 16:22 - In all your years of adultery and detestable sin, you have not once remembered the days long ago when you lay naked in a field, kicking about in your own blood.
Ezekiel 16:23 - “What sorrow awaits you, says the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other wickedness,
Ezekiel 16:24 - you built a pagan shrine and put altars to idols in every town square.
Ezekiel 16:25 - On every street corner you defiled your beauty, offering your body to every passerby in an endless stream of prostitution.
Ezekiel 16:26 - Then you added lustful Egypt to your lovers, provoking my anger with your increasing promiscuity.
Ezekiel 16:27 - That is why I struck you with my fist and reduced your boundaries. I handed you over to your enemies, the Philistines, and even they were shocked by your lewd conduct.
Ezekiel 16:28 - You have prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, too. It seems you can never find enough new lovers! And after your prostitution there, you still were not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29 - You added to your lovers by embracing Babylonia, the land of merchants, but you still weren’t satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:30 - “What a sick heart you have, says the Sovereign Lord, to do such things as these, acting like a shameless prostitute.
Ezekiel 16:31 - You build your pagan shrines on every street corner and your altars to idols in every square. In fact, you have been worse than a prostitute, so eager for sin that you have not even demanded payment.
Ezekiel 16:32 - Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.
Ezekiel 16:33 - Prostitutes charge for their services—but not you! You give gifts to your lovers, bribing them to come and have sex with you.
Ezekiel 16:34 - So you are the opposite of other prostitutes. You pay your lovers instead of their paying you!
Ezekiel 16:35 - “Therefore, you prostitute, listen to this message from the Lord!
Ezekiel 16:36 - This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have poured out your lust and exposed yourself in prostitution to all your lovers, and because you have worshiped detestable idols, and because you have slaughtered your children as sacrifices to your gods,
Ezekiel 16:37 - this is what I am going to do. I will gather together all your allies—the lovers with whom you have sinned, both those you loved and those you hated—and I will strip you naked in front of them so they can stare at you.
Ezekiel 16:38 - I will punish you for your murder and adultery. I will cover you with blood in my jealous fury.
Ezekiel 16:39 - Then I will give you to these many nations who are your lovers, and they will destroy you. They will knock down your pagan shrines and the altars to your idols. They will strip you and take your beautiful jewels, leaving you stark naked.
Ezekiel 16:40 - They will band together in a mob to stone you and cut you up with swords.
Ezekiel 16:41 - They will burn your homes and punish you in front of many women. I will stop your prostitution and end your payments to your many lovers.
Ezekiel 16:42 - “Then at last my fury against you will be spent, and my jealous anger will subside. I will be calm and will not be angry with you anymore.
Ezekiel 16:43 - But first, because you have not remembered your youth but have angered me by doing all these evil things, I will fully repay you for all of your sins, says the Sovereign Lord. For you have added lewd acts to all your detestable sins.
Ezekiel 16:44 - Everyone who makes up proverbs will say of you, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
Ezekiel 16:45 - For your mother loathed her husband and her children, and so do you. And you are exactly like your sisters, for they despised their husbands and their children. Truly your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46 - “Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters in the north. Your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters in the south.
Ezekiel 16:47 - But you have not merely sinned as they did. You quickly surpassed them in corruption.
Ezekiel 16:48 - As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, Sodom and her daughters were never as wicked as you and your daughters.
Ezekiel 16:49 - Sodom’s sins were pride, gluttony, and laziness, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door.
Ezekiel 16:50 - She was proud and committed detestable sins, so I wiped her out, as you have seen.
Ezekiel 16:51 - “Even Samaria did not commit half your sins. You have done far more detestable things than your sisters ever did. They seem righteous compared to you.
Ezekiel 16:52 - Shame on you! Your sins are so terrible that you make your sisters seem righteous, even virtuous.
Ezekiel 16:53 - “But someday I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and Samaria, and I will restore you, too.
Ezekiel 16:54 - Then you will be truly ashamed of everything you have done, for your sins make them feel good in comparison.
Ezekiel 16:55 - Yes, your sisters, Sodom and Samaria, and all their people will be restored, and at that time you also will be restored.
Ezekiel 16:56 - In your proud days you held Sodom in contempt.
Ezekiel 16:57 - But now your greater wickedness has been exposed to all the world, and you are the one who is scorned—by Edom and all her neighbors and by Philistia.
Ezekiel 16:58 - This is your punishment for all your lewdness and detestable sins, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:59 - “Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will give you what you deserve, for you have taken your solemn vows lightly by breaking your covenant.
Ezekiel 16:60 - Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you when you were young, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember with shame all the evil you have done. I will make your sisters, Samaria and Sodom, to be your daughters, even though they are not part of our covenant.
Ezekiel 16:62 - And I will reaffirm my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:63 - You will remember your sins and cover your mouth in silent shame when I forgive you of all that you have done. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”
Mark 1:1 - This is the Good News about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God. It began
Jeremiah 13:1 - This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it on, but do not wash it.”
Jeremiah 13:2 - So I bought the loincloth as the Lord directed me, and I put it on.
Jeremiah 13:3 - Then the Lord gave me another message:
Jeremiah 13:4 - “Take the linen loincloth you are wearing, and go to the Euphrates River. Hide it there in a hole in the rocks.”
Jeremiah 13:5 - So I went and hid it by the Euphrates as the Lord had instructed me.
Jeremiah 13:6 - A long time afterward the Lord said to me, “Go back to the Euphrates and get the loincloth I told you to hide there.”
Jeremiah 13:7 - So I went to the Euphrates and dug it out of the hole where I had hidden it. But now it was rotting and falling apart. The loincloth was good for nothing.
Jeremiah 13:8 - Then I received this message from the Lord:
Jeremiah 13:9 - “This is what the Lord says: This shows how I will rot away the pride of Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:10 - These wicked people refuse to listen to me. They stubbornly follow their own desires and worship other gods. Therefore, they will become like this loincloth—good for nothing!
Jeremiah 13:11 - As a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I created Judah and Israel to cling to me, says the Lord. They were to be my people, my pride, my glory—an honor to my name. But they would not listen to me.
Ezekiel 6:9 - Then when they are exiled among the nations, they will remember me. They will recognize how hurt I am by their unfaithful hearts and lustful eyes that long for their idols. Then at last they will hate themselves for all their detestable sins.
Revelation 17:5 - A mysterious name was written on her forehead: “Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World.”
2 Peter 2:14 - They commit adultery with their eyes, and their desire for sin is never satisfied. They lure unstable people into sin, and they are well trained in greed. They live under God’s curse.
Ezekiel 23:1 - This message came to me from the Lord:
Ezekiel 23:2 - “Son of man, once there were two sisters who were daughters of the same mother.
Ezekiel 23:3 - They became prostitutes in Egypt. Even as young girls, they allowed men to fondle their breasts.
Ezekiel 23:4 - The older girl was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. I married them, and they bore me sons and daughters. I am speaking of Samaria and Jerusalem, for Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 23:5 - “Then Oholah lusted after other lovers instead of me, and she gave her love to the Assyrian officers.
Ezekiel 23:6 - They were all attractive young men, captains and commanders dressed in handsome blue, charioteers driving their horses.
Ezekiel 23:7 - And so she prostituted herself with the most desirable men of Assyria, worshiping their idols and defiling herself.
Ezekiel 23:8 - For when she left Egypt, she did not leave her spirit of prostitution behind. She was still as lewd as in her youth, when the Egyptians slept with her, fondled her breasts, and used her as a prostitute.
Ezekiel 23:9 - “And so I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers, whom she desired so much.
Ezekiel 23:10 - They stripped her, took away her children as their slaves, and then killed her. After she received her punishment, her reputation was known to every woman in the land.
Ezekiel 23:11 - “Yet even though Oholibah saw what had happened to Oholah, her sister, she followed right in her footsteps. And she was even more depraved, abandoning herself to her lust and prostitution.
Ezekiel 23:12 - She fawned over all the Assyrian officers—those captains and commanders in handsome uniforms, those charioteers driving their horses—all of them attractive young men.
Ezekiel 23:13 - I saw the way she was going, defiling herself just like her older sister.
Ezekiel 23:14 - “Then she carried her prostitution even further. She fell in love with pictures that were painted on a wall—pictures of Babylonian military officers, outfitted in striking red uniforms.
Ezekiel 23:15 - Handsome belts encircled their waists, and flowing turbans crowned their heads. They were dressed like chariot officers from the land of Babylonia.
Ezekiel 23:16 - When she saw these paintings, she longed to give herself to them, so she sent messengers to Babylonia to invite them to come to her.
Ezekiel 23:17 - So they came and committed adultery with her, defiling her in the bed of love. After being defiled, however, she rejected them in disgust.
Ezekiel 23:18 - “In the same way, I became disgusted with Oholibah and rejected her, just as I had rejected her sister, because she flaunted herself before them and gave herself to satisfy their lusts.
Ezekiel 23:19 - Yet she turned to even greater prostitution, remembering her youth when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:20 - She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse.
Ezekiel 23:21 - And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled.
Ezekiel 23:22 - “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will send your lovers against you from every direction—those very nations from which you turned away in disgust.
Ezekiel 23:23 - For the Babylonians will come with all the Chaldeans from Pekod and Shoa and Koa. And all the Assyrians will come with them—handsome young captains, commanders, chariot officers, and other high-ranking officers, all riding their horses.
Ezekiel 23:24 - They will all come against you from the north with chariots, wagons, and a great army prepared for attack. They will take up positions on every side, surrounding you with men armed with shields and helmets. And I will hand you over to them for punishment so they can do with you as they please.
Ezekiel 23:25 - I will turn my jealous anger against you, and they will deal harshly with you. They will cut off your nose and ears, and any survivors will then be slaughtered by the sword. Your children will be taken away as captives, and everything that is left will be burned.
Ezekiel 23:26 - They will strip you of your beautiful clothes and jewels.
Ezekiel 23:27 - In this way, I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you brought from Egypt. You will never again cast longing eyes on those things or fondly remember your time in Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:28 - “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will surely hand you over to your enemies, to those you loathe, those you rejected.
Ezekiel 23:29 - They will treat you with hatred and rob you of all you own, leaving you stark naked. The shame of your prostitution will be exposed to all the world.
Ezekiel 23:30 - You brought all this on yourself by prostituting yourself to other nations, defiling yourself with all their idols.
Ezekiel 23:31 - Because you have followed in your sister’s footsteps, I will force you to drink the same cup of terror she drank.
Ezekiel 23:32 - “Yes, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “You will drink from your sister’s cup of terror, a cup that is large and deep. It is filled to the brim with scorn and derision.
Ezekiel 23:33 - Drunkenness and anguish will fill you, for your cup is filled to the brim with distress and desolation, the same cup your sister Samaria drank.
Ezekiel 23:34 - You will drain that cup of terror to the very bottom. Then you will smash it to pieces and beat your breast in anguish. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 23:35 - “And because you have forgotten me and turned your back on me, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You must bear the consequences of all your lewdness and prostitution.”
Ezekiel 23:36 - The Lord said to me, “Son of man, you must accuse Oholah and Oholibah of all their detestable sins.
Ezekiel 23:37 - They have committed both adultery and murder—adultery by worshiping idols and murder by burning as sacrifices the children they bore to me.
Ezekiel 23:38 - Furthermore, they have defiled my Temple and violated my Sabbath day!
Ezekiel 23:39 - On the very day that they sacrificed their children to their idols, they boldly came into my Temple to worship! They came in and defiled my house.
Ezekiel 23:40 - “You sisters sent messengers to distant lands to get men. Then when they arrived, you bathed yourselves, painted your eyelids, and put on your finest jewels for them.
Ezekiel 23:41 - You sat with them on a beautifully embroidered couch and put my incense and my special oil on a table that was spread before you.
Ezekiel 23:42 - From your room came the sound of many men carousing. They were lustful men and drunkards from the wilderness, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your heads.
Ezekiel 23:43 - Then I said, ‘If they really want to have sex with old worn-out prostitutes like these, let them!’
Ezekiel 23:44 - And that is what they did. They had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, these shameless prostitutes.
Ezekiel 23:45 - But righteous people will judge these sister cities for what they really are—adulterers and murderers.
Ezekiel 23:46 - “Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Bring an army against them and hand them over to be terrorized and plundered.
Ezekiel 23:47 - For their enemies will stone them and kill them with swords. They will butcher their sons and daughters and burn their homes.
Ezekiel 23:48 - In this way, I will put an end to lewdness and idolatry in the land, and my judgment will be a warning to all women not to follow your wicked example.
Ezekiel 23:49 - You will be fully repaid for all your prostitution—your worship of idols. Yes, you will suffer the full penalty. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.”
Exodus 34:15 - “You must not make a treaty of any kind with the people living in the land. They lust after their gods, offering sacrifices to them. They will invite you to join them in their sacrificial meals, and you will go with them.
Exodus 34:16 - Then you will accept their daughters, who sacrifice to other gods, as wives for your sons. And they will seduce your sons to commit adultery against me by worshiping other gods.
Revelation 17:1 - One of the seven angels who had poured out the seven bowls came over and spoke to me. “Come with me,” he said, “and I will show you the judgment that is going to come on the great prostitute, who rules over many waters.
Revelation 17:2 - The kings of the world have committed adultery with her, and the people who belong to this world have been made drunk by the wine of her immorality.”
Psalms 106:39 - They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the Lord’s sight.
Jeremiah 3:9 - Israel treated it all so lightly—she thought nothing of committing adultery by worshiping idols made of wood and stone. So now the land has been polluted.
Hosea 2:4 - And I will not love her children, for they were conceived in prostitution.
Hosea 2:5 - Their mother is a shameless prostitute and became pregnant in a shameful way. She said, ‘I’ll run after other lovers and sell myself to them for food and water, for clothing of wool and linen, and for olive oil and drinks.’
Deuteronomy 31:16 - The Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die and join your ancestors. After you are gone, these people will begin to worship foreign gods, the gods of the land where they are going. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
Hosea 3:1 - Then the Lord said to me, “Go and love your wife again, even though she commits adultery with another lover. This will illustrate that the Lord still loves Israel, even though the people have turned to other gods and love to worship them. ”

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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.”
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.”
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 done two evil things: They have abandoned me— the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!
Jeremiah 3:1 - “If a man divorces a woman and she goes and marries someone else, he will not take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, so why are you trying to come back to me?” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:2 - “Look at the shrines on every hilltop. Is there any place you have not been defiled by your adultery with other gods? You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a customer. You sit alone like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and your wickedness.
Jeremiah 3:3 - That’s why even the spring rains have failed. For you are a brazen prostitute and completely shameless.
Jeremiah 3:4 - Yet you say to me, ‘Father, you have been my guide since my youth.
2 Chronicles 21:13 - Instead, you have been as evil as the kings of Israel. You have led the people of Jerusalem and Judah to worship idols, just as King Ahab did in Israel. And you have even killed your own brothers, men who were better than you.
Psalms 73:27 - Those who desert him will perish, for you destroy those who abandon you.
Isaiah 20:2 - the Lord told Isaiah son of Amoz, “Take off the burlap you have been wearing, and remove your sandals.” Isaiah did as he was told and walked around naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:3 - Then the Lord said, “My servant Isaiah has been walking around naked and barefoot for the last three years. This is a sign—a symbol of the terrible troubles I will bring upon Egypt and Ethiopia.
Ezekiel 4:1 - “And now, son of man, take a large clay brick and set it down in front of you. Then draw a map of the city of Jerusalem on it.
Ezekiel 4:2 - Show the city under siege. Build a wall around it so no one can escape. Set up the enemy camp, and surround the city with siege ramps and battering rams.
Ezekiel 4:3 - Then take an iron griddle and place it between you and the city. Turn toward the city and demonstrate how harsh the siege will be against Jerusalem. This will be a warning to the people of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:4 - “Now lie on your left side and place the sins of Israel on yourself. You are to bear their sins for the number of days you lie there on your side.
Ezekiel 4:5 - I am requiring you to bear Israel’s sins for 390 days—one day for each year of their sin.
Hosea 5:3 - I know what you are like, O Ephraim. You cannot hide yourself from me, O Israel. You have left me as a prostitute leaves her husband; you are utterly defiled.
Ezekiel 16:1 - Then another message came to me from the Lord:
Ezekiel 16:2 - “Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable sins.
Ezekiel 16:3 - Give her this message from the Sovereign Lord: You are nothing but a Canaanite! Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:4 - On the day you were born, no one cared about you. Your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were never washed, rubbed with salt, and wrapped in cloth.
Ezekiel 16:5 - No one had the slightest interest in you; no one pitied you or cared for you. On the day you were born, you were unwanted, dumped in a field and left to die.
Ezekiel 16:6 - “But I came by and saw you there, helplessly kicking about in your own blood. As you lay there, I said, ‘Live!’
Ezekiel 16:7 - And I helped you to thrive like a plant in the field. You grew up and became a beautiful jewel. Your breasts became full, and your body hair grew, but you were still naked.
Ezekiel 16:8 - And when I passed by again, I saw that you were old enough for love. So I wrapped my cloak around you to cover your nakedness and declared my marriage vows. I made a covenant with you, says the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.
Ezekiel 16:9 - “Then I bathed you and washed off your blood, and I rubbed fragrant oils into your skin.
Ezekiel 16:10 - I gave you expensive clothing of fine linen and silk, beautifully embroidered, and sandals made of fine goatskin leather.
Ezekiel 16:11 - I gave you lovely jewelry, bracelets, beautiful necklaces,
Ezekiel 16:12 - a ring for your nose, earrings for your ears, and a lovely crown for your head.
Ezekiel 16:13 - And so you were adorned with gold and silver. Your clothes were made of fine linen and costly fabric and were beautifully embroidered. You ate the finest foods—choice flour, honey, and olive oil—and became more beautiful than ever. You looked like a queen, and so you were!
Ezekiel 16:14 - Your fame soon spread throughout the world because of your beauty. I dressed you in my splendor and perfected your beauty, says the Sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 16:15 - “But you thought your fame and beauty were your own. So you gave yourself as a prostitute to every man who came along. Your beauty was theirs for the asking.
Ezekiel 16:16 - You used the lovely things I gave you to make shrines for idols, where you played the prostitute. Unbelievable! How could such a thing ever happen?
Ezekiel 16:17 - You took the very jewels and gold and silver ornaments I had given you and made statues of men and worshiped them. This is adultery against me!
Ezekiel 16:18 - You used the beautifully embroidered clothes I gave you to dress your idols. Then you used my special oil and my incense to worship them.
Ezekiel 16:19 - Imagine it! You set before them as a sacrifice the choice flour, olive oil, and honey I had given you, says the Sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 16:20 - “Then you took your sons and daughters—the children you had borne to me—and sacrificed them to your gods. Was your prostitution not enough?
Ezekiel 16:21 - Must you also slaughter my children by sacrificing them to idols?
Ezekiel 16:22 - In all your years of adultery and detestable sin, you have not once remembered the days long ago when you lay naked in a field, kicking about in your own blood.
Ezekiel 16:23 - “What sorrow awaits you, says the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other wickedness,
Ezekiel 16:24 - you built a pagan shrine and put altars to idols in every town square.
Ezekiel 16:25 - On every street corner you defiled your beauty, offering your body to every passerby in an endless stream of prostitution.
Ezekiel 16:26 - Then you added lustful Egypt to your lovers, provoking my anger with your increasing promiscuity.
Ezekiel 16:27 - That is why I struck you with my fist and reduced your boundaries. I handed you over to your enemies, the Philistines, and even they were shocked by your lewd conduct.
Ezekiel 16:28 - You have prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, too. It seems you can never find enough new lovers! And after your prostitution there, you still were not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29 - You added to your lovers by embracing Babylonia, the land of merchants, but you still weren’t satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:30 - “What a sick heart you have, says the Sovereign Lord, to do such things as these, acting like a shameless prostitute.
Ezekiel 16:31 - You build your pagan shrines on every street corner and your altars to idols in every square. In fact, you have been worse than a prostitute, so eager for sin that you have not even demanded payment.
Ezekiel 16:32 - Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.
Ezekiel 16:33 - Prostitutes charge for their services—but not you! You give gifts to your lovers, bribing them to come and have sex with you.
Ezekiel 16:34 - So you are the opposite of other prostitutes. You pay your lovers instead of their paying you!
Ezekiel 16:35 - “Therefore, you prostitute, listen to this message from the Lord!
Ezekiel 16:36 - This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have poured out your lust and exposed yourself in prostitution to all your lovers, and because you have worshiped detestable idols, and because you have slaughtered your children as sacrifices to your gods,
Ezekiel 16:37 - this is what I am going to do. I will gather together all your allies—the lovers with whom you have sinned, both those you loved and those you hated—and I will strip you naked in front of them so they can stare at you.
Ezekiel 16:38 - I will punish you for your murder and adultery. I will cover you with blood in my jealous fury.
Ezekiel 16:39 - Then I will give you to these many nations who are your lovers, and they will destroy you. They will knock down your pagan shrines and the altars to your idols. They will strip you and take your beautiful jewels, leaving you stark naked.
Ezekiel 16:40 - They will band together in a mob to stone you and cut you up with swords.
Ezekiel 16:41 - They will burn your homes and punish you in front of many women. I will stop your prostitution and end your payments to your many lovers.
Ezekiel 16:42 - “Then at last my fury against you will be spent, and my jealous anger will subside. I will be calm and will not be angry with you anymore.
Ezekiel 16:43 - But first, because you have not remembered your youth but have angered me by doing all these evil things, I will fully repay you for all of your sins, says the Sovereign Lord. For you have added lewd acts to all your detestable sins.
Ezekiel 16:44 - Everyone who makes up proverbs will say of you, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
Ezekiel 16:45 - For your mother loathed her husband and her children, and so do you. And you are exactly like your sisters, for they despised their husbands and their children. Truly your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46 - “Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters in the north. Your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters in the south.
Ezekiel 16:47 - But you have not merely sinned as they did. You quickly surpassed them in corruption.
Ezekiel 16:48 - As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, Sodom and her daughters were never as wicked as you and your daughters.
Ezekiel 16:49 - Sodom’s sins were pride, gluttony, and laziness, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door.
Ezekiel 16:50 - She was proud and committed detestable sins, so I wiped her out, as you have seen.
Ezekiel 16:51 - “Even Samaria did not commit half your sins. You have done far more detestable things than your sisters ever did. They seem righteous compared to you.
Ezekiel 16:52 - Shame on you! Your sins are so terrible that you make your sisters seem righteous, even virtuous.
Ezekiel 16:53 - “But someday I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and Samaria, and I will restore you, too.
Ezekiel 16:54 - Then you will be truly ashamed of everything you have done, for your sins make them feel good in comparison.
Ezekiel 16:55 - Yes, your sisters, Sodom and Samaria, and all their people will be restored, and at that time you also will be restored.
Ezekiel 16:56 - In your proud days you held Sodom in contempt.
Ezekiel 16:57 - But now your greater wickedness has been exposed to all the world, and you are the one who is scorned—by Edom and all her neighbors and by Philistia.
Ezekiel 16:58 - This is your punishment for all your lewdness and detestable sins, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:59 - “Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will give you what you deserve, for you have taken your solemn vows lightly by breaking your covenant.
Ezekiel 16:60 - Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you when you were young, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember with shame all the evil you have done. I will make your sisters, Samaria and Sodom, to be your daughters, even though they are not part of our covenant.
Ezekiel 16:62 - And I will reaffirm my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:63 - You will remember your sins and cover your mouth in silent shame when I forgive you of all that you have done. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”
Mark 1:1 - This is the Good News about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God. It began
Jeremiah 13:1 - This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it on, but do not wash it.”
Jeremiah 13:2 - So I bought the loincloth as the Lord directed me, and I put it on.
Jeremiah 13:3 - Then the Lord gave me another message:
Jeremiah 13:4 - “Take the linen loincloth you are wearing, and go to the Euphrates River. Hide it there in a hole in the rocks.”
Jeremiah 13:5 - So I went and hid it by the Euphrates as the Lord had instructed me.
Jeremiah 13:6 - A long time afterward the Lord said to me, “Go back to the Euphrates and get the loincloth I told you to hide there.”
Jeremiah 13:7 - So I went to the Euphrates and dug it out of the hole where I had hidden it. But now it was rotting and falling apart. The loincloth was good for nothing.
Jeremiah 13:8 - Then I received this message from the Lord:
Jeremiah 13:9 - “This is what the Lord says: This shows how I will rot away the pride of Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:10 - These wicked people refuse to listen to me. They stubbornly follow their own desires and worship other gods. Therefore, they will become like this loincloth—good for nothing!
Jeremiah 13:11 - As a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I created Judah and Israel to cling to me, says the Lord. They were to be my people, my pride, my glory—an honor to my name. But they would not listen to me.
Ezekiel 6:9 - Then when they are exiled among the nations, they will remember me. They will recognize how hurt I am by their unfaithful hearts and lustful eyes that long for their idols. Then at last they will hate themselves for all their detestable sins.
Revelation 17:5 - A mysterious name was written on her forehead: “Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World.”
2 Peter 2:14 - They commit adultery with their eyes, and their desire for sin is never satisfied. They lure unstable people into sin, and they are well trained in greed. They live under God’s curse.
Ezekiel 23:1 - This message came to me from the Lord:
Ezekiel 23:2 - “Son of man, once there were two sisters who were daughters of the same mother.
Ezekiel 23:3 - They became prostitutes in Egypt. Even as young girls, they allowed men to fondle their breasts.
Ezekiel 23:4 - The older girl was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. I married them, and they bore me sons and daughters. I am speaking of Samaria and Jerusalem, for Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 23:5 - “Then Oholah lusted after other lovers instead of me, and she gave her love to the Assyrian officers.
Ezekiel 23:6 - They were all attractive young men, captains and commanders dressed in handsome blue, charioteers driving their horses.
Ezekiel 23:7 - And so she prostituted herself with the most desirable men of Assyria, worshiping their idols and defiling herself.
Ezekiel 23:8 - For when she left Egypt, she did not leave her spirit of prostitution behind. She was still as lewd as in her youth, when the Egyptians slept with her, fondled her breasts, and used her as a prostitute.
Ezekiel 23:9 - “And so I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers, whom she desired so much.
Ezekiel 23:10 - They stripped her, took away her children as their slaves, and then killed her. After she received her punishment, her reputation was known to every woman in the land.
Ezekiel 23:11 - “Yet even though Oholibah saw what had happened to Oholah, her sister, she followed right in her footsteps. And she was even more depraved, abandoning herself to her lust and prostitution.
Ezekiel 23:12 - She fawned over all the Assyrian officers—those captains and commanders in handsome uniforms, those charioteers driving their horses—all of them attractive young men.
Ezekiel 23:13 - I saw the way she was going, defiling herself just like her older sister.
Ezekiel 23:14 - “Then she carried her prostitution even further. She fell in love with pictures that were painted on a wall—pictures of Babylonian military officers, outfitted in striking red uniforms.
Ezekiel 23:15 - Handsome belts encircled their waists, and flowing turbans crowned their heads. They were dressed like chariot officers from the land of Babylonia.
Ezekiel 23:16 - When she saw these paintings, she longed to give herself to them, so she sent messengers to Babylonia to invite them to come to her.
Ezekiel 23:17 - So they came and committed adultery with her, defiling her in the bed of love. After being defiled, however, she rejected them in disgust.
Ezekiel 23:18 - “In the same way, I became disgusted with Oholibah and rejected her, just as I had rejected her sister, because she flaunted herself before them and gave herself to satisfy their lusts.
Ezekiel 23:19 - Yet she turned to even greater prostitution, remembering her youth when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:20 - She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse.
Ezekiel 23:21 - And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled.
Ezekiel 23:22 - “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will send your lovers against you from every direction—those very nations from which you turned away in disgust.
Ezekiel 23:23 - For the Babylonians will come with all the Chaldeans from Pekod and Shoa and Koa. And all the Assyrians will come with them—handsome young captains, commanders, chariot officers, and other high-ranking officers, all riding their horses.
Ezekiel 23:24 - They will all come against you from the north with chariots, wagons, and a great army prepared for attack. They will take up positions on every side, surrounding you with men armed with shields and helmets. And I will hand you over to them for punishment so they can do with you as they please.
Ezekiel 23:25 - I will turn my jealous anger against you, and they will deal harshly with you. They will cut off your nose and ears, and any survivors will then be slaughtered by the sword. Your children will be taken away as captives, and everything that is left will be burned.
Ezekiel 23:26 - They will strip you of your beautiful clothes and jewels.
Ezekiel 23:27 - In this way, I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you brought from Egypt. You will never again cast longing eyes on those things or fondly remember your time in Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:28 - “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will surely hand you over to your enemies, to those you loathe, those you rejected.
Ezekiel 23:29 - They will treat you with hatred and rob you of all you own, leaving you stark naked. The shame of your prostitution will be exposed to all the world.
Ezekiel 23:30 - You brought all this on yourself by prostituting yourself to other nations, defiling yourself with all their idols.
Ezekiel 23:31 - Because you have followed in your sister’s footsteps, I will force you to drink the same cup of terror she drank.
Ezekiel 23:32 - “Yes, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “You will drink from your sister’s cup of terror, a cup that is large and deep. It is filled to the brim with scorn and derision.
Ezekiel 23:33 - Drunkenness and anguish will fill you, for your cup is filled to the brim with distress and desolation, the same cup your sister Samaria drank.
Ezekiel 23:34 - You will drain that cup of terror to the very bottom. Then you will smash it to pieces and beat your breast in anguish. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 23:35 - “And because you have forgotten me and turned your back on me, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You must bear the consequences of all your lewdness and prostitution.”
Ezekiel 23:36 - The Lord said to me, “Son of man, you must accuse Oholah and Oholibah of all their detestable sins.
Ezekiel 23:37 - They have committed both adultery and murder—adultery by worshiping idols and murder by burning as sacrifices the children they bore to me.
Ezekiel 23:38 - Furthermore, they have defiled my Temple and violated my Sabbath day!
Ezekiel 23:39 - On the very day that they sacrificed their children to their idols, they boldly came into my Temple to worship! They came in and defiled my house.
Ezekiel 23:40 - “You sisters sent messengers to distant lands to get men. Then when they arrived, you bathed yourselves, painted your eyelids, and put on your finest jewels for them.
Ezekiel 23:41 - You sat with them on a beautifully embroidered couch and put my incense and my special oil on a table that was spread before you.
Ezekiel 23:42 - From your room came the sound of many men carousing. They were lustful men and drunkards from the wilderness, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your heads.
Ezekiel 23:43 - Then I said, ‘If they really want to have sex with old worn-out prostitutes like these, let them!’
Ezekiel 23:44 - And that is what they did. They had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, these shameless prostitutes.
Ezekiel 23:45 - But righteous people will judge these sister cities for what they really are—adulterers and murderers.
Ezekiel 23:46 - “Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Bring an army against them and hand them over to be terrorized and plundered.
Ezekiel 23:47 - For their enemies will stone them and kill them with swords. They will butcher their sons and daughters and burn their homes.
Ezekiel 23:48 - In this way, I will put an end to lewdness and idolatry in the land, and my judgment will be a warning to all women not to follow your wicked example.
Ezekiel 23:49 - You will be fully repaid for all your prostitution—your worship of idols. Yes, you will suffer the full penalty. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.”
Exodus 34:15 - “You must not make a treaty of any kind with the people living in the land. They lust after their gods, offering sacrifices to them. They will invite you to join them in their sacrificial meals, and you will go with them.
Exodus 34:16 - Then you will accept their daughters, who sacrifice to other gods, as wives for your sons. And they will seduce your sons to commit adultery against me by worshiping other gods.
Revelation 17:1 - One of the seven angels who had poured out the seven bowls came over and spoke to me. “Come with me,” he said, “and I will show you the judgment that is going to come on the great prostitute, who rules over many waters.
Revelation 17:2 - The kings of the world have committed adultery with her, and the people who belong to this world have been made drunk by the wine of her immorality.”
Psalms 106:39 - They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the Lord’s sight.
Jeremiah 3:9 - Israel treated it all so lightly—she thought nothing of committing adultery by worshiping idols made of wood and stone. So now the land has been polluted.
Hosea 2:4 - And I will not love her children, for they were conceived in prostitution.
Hosea 2:5 - Their mother is a shameless prostitute and became pregnant in a shameful way. She said, ‘I’ll run after other lovers and sell myself to them for food and water, for clothing of wool and linen, and for olive oil and drinks.’
Deuteronomy 31:16 - The Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die and join your ancestors. After you are gone, these people will begin to worship foreign gods, the gods of the land where they are going. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
Hosea 3:1 - Then the Lord said to me, “Go and love your wife again, even though she commits adultery with another lover. This will illustrate that the Lord still loves Israel, even though the people have turned to other gods and love to worship them. ”