Hosea 2:4

Modern English Version

I will not have mercy upon her children, for they are children of harlotry.

Cross References

2 Kings 9:22

When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he said, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many?”

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are withered, they are broken off; the women come and make a fire with them, for they are not a people of understanding; therefore, their maker will not have mercy on them, and their Creator will show them no grace.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is the certificate of divorce by which I sent your mother away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Isaiah 57:3

But draw near to here, you sons of a sorceress, offspring of an adulterer and prostitute.

Jeremiah 13:14

I will dash them against one another, even the fathers and the sons together, says the Lord. I will not show pity or spare or have mercy, but will destroy them.

Jeremiah 16:5

For thus says the Lord: Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people, says the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercy.

Ezekiel 23:25

I will set My jealousy against you, so that they deal furiously with you. They shall take away your nose and your ears. And your remnant shall fall by the sword. They shall take your sons and your daughters. And your remnant shall be devoured by the fire.

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I will indeed deal in fury. My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel 9:10

But as for Me, My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their heads.”

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry, departing from the Lord.”

Hosea 1:6

Then Gomer conceived again, and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to Hosea: “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer have mercy upon the house of Israel but will utterly sweep them away.

Hosea 5:7

They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord, for they have given birth to illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their portion.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the Lord said, “How much longer, O  Lord of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah with which You have been angry these seventy years?”

John 8:41

You are doing the works of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father: God.”

Romans 11:22

Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God—severity toward those who fell, but goodness toward you, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.

Romans 9:18

Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.

James 2:13

For he who has shown no mercy will have judgment without mercy, for mercy triumphs over judgment.