Hosea 2:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Accuse your mother, accuse! for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her prostitution from her face. her adultery from between her breasts,

Cross References

2 Kings 9:22

When Joram recognized Jehu, he asked, “Is everything all right, Jehu?” Jehu replied, “How could everything be all right as long as all the harlotry and sorcery of your mother Jezebel continues?”

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs wither, they shall be broken off; and women shall come to kindle fires with them. For this is not an understanding people; therefore their maker shall not spare them; their creator shall not be gracious to them.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is the bill of divorce with which I dismissed your mother? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? It was for your sins you were sold, for your rebellions your mother was dismissed.

Isaiah 57:3

But you, draw near, you children of a sorceress, offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!

Jeremiah 13:14

I will smash them against each other, parents and children together—oracle of the Lord—showing no compassion, I will neither spare nor pity, but I will destroy them.

Jeremiah 16:5

Thus says the Lord: Do not go into a house of mourning; do not go there to lament or grieve for them. For I have withdrawn my peace from this people—oracle of the Lord—my love and my compassion.

Ezekiel 23:25

I will direct my jealousy against you, so that they deal with you in fury, cutting off your nose and ears; what is left of you shall fall by the sword. They shall take away your sons and daughters, and what is left of you shall be devoured by fire.

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I in turn will act furiously: my eye will not spare, nor will I take pity. Even if they cry out in a loud voice for me to hear, I shall not listen to them.

Ezekiel 9:10

My eye, however, will not spare, nor shall I take pity, but I will bring their conduct down upon their heads.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord began to speak with Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: Go, get for yourself a woman of prostitution and children of prostitution, for the land prostitutes itself, turning away from the Lord.

Hosea 1:6

She conceived again and bore a daughter. The Lord said to him: Give her the name “Not-Pitied,” for I will no longer feel pity for the house of Israel: rather, I will utterly abhor them.

Hosea 5:7

They have betrayed the Lord, for they have borne illegitimate children; Now the new moon will devour them together with their fields.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the Lord replied, “Lord of hosts, how long will you be without mercy for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that have felt your anger these seventy years?”

John 8:41

You are doing the works of your father!” [So] they said to him, “We are not illegitimate. We have one Father, God.”

Romans 11:22

See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God’s kindness to you, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.

Romans 9:18

Consequently, he has mercy upon whom he wills, and he hardens whom he wills.

James 2:13

For the judgment is merciless to one who has not shown mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment. Faith and Works.