And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the harlotries and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”
Hosea 2:4 - Revised Standard Version Upon her children also I will have no pity, because they are children of harlotry. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yes, for her children I will have no love nor pity nor mercy, for they are the children of harlotry. American Standard Version (1901) Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom; Common English Bible I will also have no compassion on her children because they are children of prostitution. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of fornications. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are the children of fornications. |
And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the harlotries and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”
When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.
Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother's bill of divorce, with which I put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.
But you, draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the harlot.
And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’ ”
“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.
And I will direct my indignation against you, 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.
Therefore I will deal in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will requite their deeds upon their heads.”
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the Lord.”
She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, “Call her name Not pitied, for I will no more have pity on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
Then the angel of the Lord said, ‘O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years?’
You do what your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.”
Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.
So then he has mercy upon whomever he wills, and he hardens the heart of whomever he wills.
For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy; yet mercy triumphs over judgment.