Hosea 1:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity, and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the  Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² When the Lord first spoke with and through Hosea, the Lord said to him, Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of [her] harlotry, for the land commits great whoredom by departing from the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

² When Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah.

Common English Bible

² When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to him,“Go, marry a prostitute and have children of prostitution, for the people of the land commit great prostitution by deserting the LORD.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² The beginning of the Lord's conversation with Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea: "Go, take to yourself a wife of fornications, and make for yourself sons of fornications, because, by fornicating, the land will fornicate away from the Lord."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² The beginning of the Lord's speaking by Osse: and the Lord said to Osee: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and have of her children of fornications: for the land by fornication shall depart from the Lord.

Hosea 1:2 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 21:13

but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel,  have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves like the house of Ahab  prostituted itself, and also have killed your brothers,  your father’s family, who were better than you,

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves #– # cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 2:20

For long ago I   broke your yoke; I  tore off your chains. You insisted, ‘I will not serve! ’ On every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a prostitute.

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you protest, ‘I am not defiled; I have not followed the Baals’? Look at your behaviour in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young camel twisting and turning on her way,

Jeremiah 3:9

Indifferent to  her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones  and trees.

Ezekiel 6:9

Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive,  how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols.  They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did,  their detestable actions of every kind.

Hosea 2:7

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will think, ‘I will go back to my former husband, for then it was better for me than now.’

Hosea 3:1

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress,  just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.’

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me. For now, Ephraim, you have acted promiscuously; Israel is defiled.

Mark 1:1

The beginning  of the gospel  of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.  ,

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, ‘You are about to rest with your ancestors,  and these people will soon prostitute themselves with the foreign gods  of the land they are entering. They will abandon me  and break the covenant  I have made with them.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery  that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!

Revelation 17:5

On her forehead was written a name, a mystery:  Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Detestable Things of the Earth.