Hosea 2:4

Tree of Life Version

Contend with your mother, contend! For she is not My wife nor I her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face and her adulteries from between her breasts.

Cross References

2 Kings 9:22

Now when Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Is it peace, Jehu?” So he answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?”

Isaiah 27:11

When the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women come and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore their Maker will show them no mercy—He who formed them will give them no grace.

Isaiah 50:1

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

Isaiah 57:3

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

Jeremiah 13:14

And I will smash them against each other, even fathers and sons,’ says Adonai. ‘I will show no pity, nor regret, nor compassion, to keep Me from destroying them.’”

Jeremiah 16:5

For thus says Adonai: “Do not enter a house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them. For I have taken away My shalom from this people”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“as well as My mercy and compassion.

Ezekiel 23:25

I will vent My jealousy against you, letting them deal with you in fury. They will cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters, and your survivors will be devoured by fire.

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I will indeed act in fury. My eye will not spare you nor will I have pity. Though they cry into My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”

Ezekiel 9:10

As for Me, my eye will not show pity nor will I spare. I will bring their conduct upon their head.”

Hosea 1:2

When Adonai first spoke with Hosea, Adonai said to Hosea: “Go, get yourself a prostitute as a wife and children with a prostitute! For the land is an unfaithful prostitute, far from following after Adonai.”

Hosea 1:6

Then she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And He said to him: “Name her Lo-ruhamah— for no longer will I have compassion on the house of Israel that I should ever pardon them.

Hosea 5:7

They have betrayed Adonai, for they have begotten foreign children. Now the New Moon will devour them, with their portions.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of Adonai answered and said, ‘Adonai-Tzva’ot, how long will You withhold compassion on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah with whom You have been angry for 70 years?’

John 8:41

You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born as illegitimate children—we have one Father, God Himself!”

Romans 11:22

Notice then the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell; but God’s kindness toward you, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off!

Romans 9:18

So then He has mercy on whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.

James 2:13

For judgment is merciless to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.