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Hosea 2:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will have no compassion on her children because they are the children of promiscuity.

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She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter, and the Lord said to him: Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel. I will certainly take them away.


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.


Therefore I will respond with wrath.  I will not show pity or spare them.  Though they call loudly in my hearing,  I will not listen to them.’


I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion to keep me from destroying them.” ’


For judgement is without mercy to the one who has not shown mercy.  Mercy triumphs over judgement.


Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity towards those who have fallen but God’s kindness  towards you #– #if you remain in his kindness.  Otherwise you too will be cut off.


So then, he has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and he hardens whom he wants to harden.


You’re doing what your father does.’ ‘We weren’t born  of sexual immorality,’  they said. ‘We have one Father #– #God.’


Then the angel of the Lord responded, ‘How long, Lord of Armies, will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that you have been angry with these seventy years? ’


But as for me, I will not show pity or spare them.  I will bring their conduct down on their own heads.’


‘For this is what the Lord says: Don’t enter a house where a mourning feast is taking place.  Don’t go to lament or sympathise with them, for I have removed my peace from these people as well as my faithful love and compassion.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.


But come here, you witch’s sons, offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!


When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker  will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.


When Joram saw Jehu he asked, ‘Do you come in peace, Jehu? ’ He answered, ‘What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and sorcery from your mother Jezebel? ’


When I vent my jealous fury on you,  they will deal with you in wrath. They will cut off your nose and ears, and the rest of you  will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be consumed by fire.


They betrayed the  Lord; indeed, they gave birth to illegitimate children. Now the New Moon  will devour them along with their fields.


This is what the Lord says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.





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