Adulterous people, don’t y’all know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes themselves an enemy of God.
He taught them, saying, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the ethnic groups?’ But y’all have made it a den of robbers!”
An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” Then he left them and departed.
“Cursed is the deceiver who has a male in his flock and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says YHWH Almighty, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
When y’all offer blind animals for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when y’all offer lame and sick animals, isn’t that evil? Try offering that to your governor! Will he be pleased with you or show you favor?” says YHWH Almighty.
One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.