Hosea 2:2

Good News Translation (US Version)

My children, plead with your mother—though she is no longer a wife to me, and I am no longer her husband. Plead with her to stop her adultery and prostitution.

Cross References

Isaiah 50:1

The Lord says, “Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes.

Ezekiel 23:45

Righteous men will condemn them on the charge of adultery and murder, because they practice adultery and their hands are stained with blood.”

Jeremiah 3:13

Only admit that you are guilty and that you have rebelled against the Lord, your God. Confess that under every green tree you have given your love to foreign gods and that you have not obeyed my commands. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Ezekiel 16:25

You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.

Jeremiah 3:1

The Lord says, “If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he cannot take her back again. This would completely defile the land. But, Israel, you have had many lovers, and now you want to return to me!

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke to Israel through Hosea, he said to Hosea, “Go and get married; your wife will be unfaithful, and your children will be just like her. In the same way my people have left me and become unfaithful.”

Jeremiah 19:3

The Lord told me to say, “Kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem, listen to what I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, have to say. I am going to bring such a disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will be stunned.

2 Corinthians 5:16

No longer, then, do we judge anyone by human standards. Even if at one time we judged Christ according to human standards, we no longer do so.

Ezekiel 23:43

And I said to myself that they were using as a prostitute a woman worn out by adultery.

Ezekiel 20:4

“Are you ready to pass sentence on them, mortal man? Then do so. Remind them of the disgusting things their ancestors did.

Ezekiel 16:20

“Then you took the sons and the daughters you had borne me and offered them as sacrifices to idols. Wasn't it bad enough to be unfaithful to me,

Jeremiah 2:2

to proclaim this message to everyone in Jerusalem. “I remember how faithful you were when you were young, how you loved me when we were first married; you followed me through the desert, through a land that had not been planted.

Isaiah 58:1

The Lord says, “Shout as loud as you can! Tell my people Israel about their sins!

Hosea 2:1

So call your fellow Israelites “God's People” and “Loved-by-the-Lord.”

Hosea 4:5

Night and day you blunder on, and the prophets do no better than you. I am going to destroy Israel, your mother.

Isaiah 11:12

The Lord will raise a signal flag to show the nations that he is gathering together again the scattered people of Israel and Judah and bringing them back from the four corners of the earth.

Jeremiah 3:18

Israel will join with Judah, and together they will come from exile in the country in the north and will return to the land that I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.”

Micah 2:13

God will open the way for them and lead them out of exile. They will break out of the city gates and go free. Their king, the Lord himself, will lead them out.