Hosea 2:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Kings 9:22

When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the many prostitutions and sorceries of your mother Jezebel continue?”

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is your mother’s bill of divorce with which I dismissed her? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? No, because of your sins you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.

Isaiah 57:3

But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.

Jeremiah 13:14

And I will dash them one against another, parents and children together, says the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion when I destroy them.

Jeremiah 16:5

For thus says the Lord: Do not enter the house of mourning or go to lament or bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, my steadfast love and mercy.

Ezekiel 23:25

I will direct my indignation against you, in order that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I will act in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, and though they cry in my hearing with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel 9:10

As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will bring down their deeds upon their heads.”

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of prostitution, for the land commits great prostitution by forsaking the Lord.”

Hosea 1:6

She conceived again and bore a daughter. Then the Lord said to him, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have pity on the house of Israel or forgive them.

Hosea 5:7

They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord, for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon shall devour them along with their fields.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the Lord said, “O Lord of hosts, how long 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 indeed doing what your father does.” They said to him, “We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, God himself.”

Romans 11:22

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you, if you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Romans 9:18

So then he has mercy on whomever he chooses, and he hardens the heart of whomever he chooses.

James 2:13

For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.