And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
Hosea 2:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they be children of whoredom, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yes, for her children I will have no love nor pity nor mercy, for they are the children of harlotry. American Standard Version (1901) Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom; Common English Bible I will also have no compassion on her children because they are children of prostitution. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of fornications. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are the children of fornications. |
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.
For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and tender mercies.
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.
When the LORD spake at the first by Hosea, the LORD said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom: for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And the LORD said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them.
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.
Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God's goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
For judgement is without mercy to him that hath shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgement.