Hosea 2:5 Cross References - LITV

⁵ For their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

²³ And the Philistine rulers gathered to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to exult. And they said, Our god has given our enemy Samson into our hand.

⁶ And I said, O my God, I am ashamed and wounded to lift up my face to You, O my God. For our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown to the heavens. ⁷ Since the days of our fathers we have been in great guilt until this day. And for our iniquities we, our kings, our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to shame of faces to this day.

²¹ Oh how the faithful city has become a harlot! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it. But now, murderers!

¹ So says Jehovah, Where is the scroll of your mother's divorce whom I have put away? Or who of My creditors that I have sold you to him? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your trespasses.

⁷ You have set your couch on a lofty and high mountain; yea, you went up there to sacrifice a sacrifice. ⁸ And you have set up your memorial behind the door and post. For you uncovered yourself from Me and went up; you enlarged your couch; and you cut covenant with them; you loved their couch; at a hand you looked.

²⁰ For long ago you broke your yoke and tore up your bonds. And you said, I will not transgress, when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a harlot.

²⁵ Withhold your foot from being bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, It is hopeless! For I love strangers, and after them I will go. ²⁶ As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed. They, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets are ²⁷ saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You gave us birth. For they turned their back to Me, and not the face. But in the time of their evil, they will say, Arise, and save us!

¹ They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet would you come back to Me, says Jehovah.? ² Lift up your eyes on the bare heights and see. Where have you not been lain with? By the highways you have sat for them, like an Arab in the desert. And you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your evil. ³ And the showers are withheld, and there has been no latter rain. And the forehead of a woman, a harlot was to you; you refused to be ashamed. ⁴ Have you not just now called to Me, saying, My father, You are the friend of my youth? ⁵ Will He keep His anger forever? Or will He guard it to the end? Behold, you have spoken, and you have done all the evil things that you could. ⁶ Jehovah also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what the apostate Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree, and has fornicated there. ⁷ And after she had done all these, I said, She will return to Me; but she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. ⁸ And I watched. When for all the causes for which the apostate Israel committed adultery, I put her away and gave her a bill of her divorce to her. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and fornicated. ⁹ And it happened, from the wantonness of her harlotry she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with pieces of wood.

¹³ For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; yea, according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.

¹⁷ But we will certainly do whatever thing goes out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our rulers, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. And we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. ¹⁸ But when we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been devoured by the sword and by the famine.

¹⁵ But you trusted in your beauty, and you prostituted yourself because of your name, and poured out your fornications on all who passed by; it was to him! ¹⁶ And you took from your clothes and made for you high places of various colors, and fornicated on them, such as had not come, nor shall be.

²⁸ You have fornicated with the sons of Assyria without being satisfied. Yea, you fornicated and yet you were not satisfied. ²⁹ And you have multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan, to the Chaldean, and yet you were not satisfied with this. ³⁰ How weak is your heart, declares the Lord Jehovah, since you do all these, the work of a woman, an overbearing prostitute, ³¹ in that you built your mound in the head of every highway, and you make your high place in every open place; yet you have not been as a prostitute, even scorning wages. ³² Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers. ³³ They give a gift to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers and bribe them to come to you from all around for your fornication. ³⁴ And in you was the opposite from those women in your fornications, since no one whores after you, and in your giving wages, and hire is not given to you. In this you are opposite.

⁵ And Oholah whored under Me. And she lusted after her lovers, to Assyrian neighbors, ⁶ clothed with purple, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding horses. ⁷ And she bestowed her harlotries on them, the choice sons of Assyria, with all of them, and with all after whom she lusted. She defiled herself with all their idols. ⁸ And she did not leave her fornications from Egypt. For they lay with her in her youth, and they worked her virgin nipples and poured their fornications on her. ⁹ So I have given her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the sons of Assyria on whom she lusted. ¹⁰ They uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters. And they killed her with the sword. And she became notorious among women, and they executed judgments on her. ¹¹ And her sister Oholibah saw. And she was more corrupt in her lustfulness than she, and her fornications were greater than her sister's whoredom.

¹⁶ And she lusted after them, to the look of her eyes, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. ¹⁷ And the sons of Babylon came to her, to the bed of love. And they defiled her with their fornications. And she was defiled with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

⁴⁰ Furthermore, they have sent for men to come from a distance, of whom a messenger was sent to them. And behold, they came, for whom you washed, painted your eyes, and were adorned with gems. ⁴¹ And you sat on a glorious bed, and a table was arranged before it, and My incense and My oil you set on it. ⁴² And the sound of a crowd at ease was with her, and drunkards from the wilderness were brought with the men of the host of mankind. And they put bracelets on their hands and crowns of beauty on their heads. ⁴³ Then I said about the one worn in adulteries, Will they now fornicate with her, and she with them ? ⁴⁴ And they went in to her. As they go in to a woman of harlotry, so they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the wicked women.

⁵ we have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done evilly, and we have rebelled, even by departing from Your commandments and from Your judgments. ⁶ And we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our rulers, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us the shame of our faces, as it is this day to the men of Judah, and to the dwellers of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near and who are afar through all the lands where You have scattered them for their unfaithfulness which they have done against You. ⁸ O Lord, shame of face belongs to us, to our kings, to our rulers and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

² Strive! Strive with your mother, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Therefore, let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

⁸ For she did not know that I gave her grain and wine and oil, and I multiplied her silver and the gold they prepared for Baal.

¹² And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, They are my rewards that my lovers have given me. And I will set them for a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. ¹³ And I will visit on her the days of the Baals in which she burned incense to them. Yea, she adorned herself with her nose rings, and her jewels, and she went after her lovers and forgot Me, says Jehovah.

¹ And Jehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman loved by a friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah toward the sons of Israel, who turn to other gods, and love raisin cakes of grapes.

⁵ And you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with you at night, and I will cut off your mother.

¹² My people seek advice by their wooden idols, and their rod declares to them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they fornicated from under their God. ¹³ They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn incense on the hills, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because its shade is good. On account of this, your daughters shall prostitute, and your brides shall commit adultery. ¹⁴ I will not punish your daughters when they fornicate, nor your brides when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. The people who do not understand are thrust down. ¹⁵ Israel, though you fornicate, do not let Judah become guilty. And do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah lives.

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.

¹⁰ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruit in the fig tree at her first time. They came to Baal-peor and set themselves apart to a shameful thing. And they became hateful like that which they loved.

²⁰ But I have a few things against you, that you allow the woman Jezebel to teach, she saying herself to be a prophetess, and to cause My slaves to go astray, and to commit fornication, and to eat idol sacrifices. ²¹ And I gave time to her that she might repent of her fornication. And she did not repent. ²² Behold, I am throwing her into a bed, and into great affliction those committing adultery with her, unless they repent of their works. ²³ And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches will know that I am the One searching the inner parts and hearts. And I will give to each of you according to your works.

¹ And one of the seven angels having the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying to me, Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot sitting on the many waters, ² with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the ones inhabiting the earth became drunk from the wine of her fornication. ³ And he carried me away into a desert, by the Spirit. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, filled with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and being gilded with gold and precious stone and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominations and unclean things of her fornication. ⁵ And on her forehead was a name having been written: Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth.