Hosea 1:2

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The beginning of the Lord's speaking by Osse: and the Lord said to Osee: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and have of her children of fornications: for the land by fornication shall depart from the Lord.

Cross References

Hosea 3:1

And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes.

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the Lord said to Moses: Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a-fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell. There will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them,

Jeremiah 3:9

And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.

Psalm 106:39

Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.

Revelation 17:5

And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery; Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications, and the abominations of the earth.

2 Peter 2:14

Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls, having their heart exercised with covetousness, children of malediction:

Ezekiel 6:9

And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the nations to which they are carried captives: because I have broken their heart that was faithless and revolted from me and their eyes that went afornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased with themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.

Mark 1:1

THE beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have done two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

2 Chronicles 21:13

But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast made Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, imitating the fornication of the house of Achab: moreover also thou hast killed thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than thyself:

Jeremiah 2:20

Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill and under every green, tree thou didst prostitute thyself.

Jeremiah 2:23

How canst thou say: I am not polluted, and I have not walked after Baalim? See thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course.

Hosea 2:7

And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband, because it was better with me then, than now.