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Hosea 2:4

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I will have no pity on her children, because they are children of prostitution.

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When Joram saw Jehu, he asked him, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?” “What peace can there be with so much prostitution and witchcraft caused by your mother Jezebel?” Jehu replied.

Their dry branches are broken off and used by women to make fires. This is a people that doesn't have any sense, so their Maker won't feel sorry for them, and their Creator won't help them.

This is what the Lord says: Where's your mother's divorce certificate I gave her when I sent her away? Which of my creditors did I sell you to? Now look! You were sold because of your sins, and your mother was sent away because of your wrongdoing.

But as for you, children of fortune-tellers, the product of adultery and prostitution—come here!

I'm going to smash them against each other like wine jars, both parents and children, declares the Lord. I won't let any mercy or pity or compassion stop me from destroying them.

This is what the Lord says: Don't enter a home where people are having a funeral meal. Don't visit them to mourn or to offer condolences, for I have taken away my peace, my trustworthy love, and my mercy from these people, declares the Lord.

I feel so strongly about what you've done that I will oppose you, and they will treat you very badly. They will cut off your noses and ears, and they will kill those of you who are left. They will take away your sons and daughters as prisoners, and those of you who are left will be destroyed by fire.

As a result I will respond in anger. I won't treat them kindly; I won't be merciful to them. Even though they shout loudly for my help, I won't listen to them.”

But I certainly won't be kind to them or have mercy on them. I will make sure they suffer the consequences of what they've done.”

The Lord began speaking through Hosea by telling him, “Go and take a wife who is a prostitute and have children born to a prostitute, because those living in this land have committed terrible prostitution by turning away from the Lord.”

Gomer became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter. The Lord told Hosea, “Call her Lo-ruhamah, because I will no longer love the house of Israel and certainly not forgive them.

They have been unfaithful to the Lord and have had children that are not his. Now the New Moon will destroy them along with their fields.

Then the angel of the Lord said, “Lord Almighty, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah which you have been angry with for the past seventy years?”

You're doing what your father does.” “Well we are not illegitimate,” they responded. “God alone is our father!”

You should recognize both God's kindness and toughness—he was tough on the fallen, but God is kind to you so long as you trust in his kindness—otherwise you'll be removed too.

So God is merciful to those he wishes to be, and hardens the attitude of those he wants to.

Anyone who doesn't show mercy will be judged without mercy. Yet mercy wins out over judgment!




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